Irvin D. Yalom said this quote

“ You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach. ”

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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

~ Irvin D. Yalom

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

~ Irvin D. Yalom