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“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.”

Humans Existence Worry Conditions Essentials Anxiety Preserves Tension Boredom Human Condition Sensitivity Confrontation Human Existence Anxiety And Worry

Author:Rollo May

“Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the recognition of this state of Being its theory intends from the beginning a concrete practice. Seen in the light of a truth which appears in them falsified or denied, the given facts themselves appear false and negative.”

Firsts States Facts Light Given Practice Conditions Theory Ought Negative Structure Critical Recognition Tension Denied Concrete

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".”

Ifs Would Be Political Leader Conditions Tension Political Leaders Athens

Author:Moses Finley

“Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.”

Important War Today Causes Poverty Conditions Produce International Deeper Tension Continuing Distress

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.”

Humans Conditions Degrees Highest Tension Bovine

Author:Brian Swimme