“If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.”

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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