"As a being, as extension of all of Being, man has an organismic impulsion: to take into his own organization the maximum amount of the problematic of life. His daily life, then, becomes truly a duty of cosmic proportions, and his courage to face the anxiety of meaningless becomes a true cosmic heroism. No longer does one as God wills, set over against some imaginary figure in heaven. Rather, in one's own person he tries to achieve what the creative powers of emergent Being have themsleves so far achieved with lower forms of life: the overcoming of that which would negate life.
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Mysticism lacks precisely the element of skepticism, and skepticism is a more radical experience, a more manly confrontation of potential meaninglessness."
To i poniższe z: E. Becker, "The Denial of Death".
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