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Nathaniel Branden on Power

1930–2014 Canada

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Man's need of self-esteem entails the need for a sense of control over reality – but no control is possible in a universe which, by one's own concession, contains the supernatural, the miraculous and the causeless, a universe in which one is at the mercy of ghosts and demons, in which one must deal, not with the unknown, but with the unknowable; no control is possible if man proposes, but a ghost disposes; no control is possible if the universe is a haunted house.

Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathaniel Branden (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.