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Canetti, Elias (2002): Über Tiere.
Andreas Weber • Alles fühlt (German Edition)
“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
David Mitchell • Cloud Atlas
This quote from Elias Canetti, I think really solves what we're discussing: “A crowd exists as long as it has an unattainable goal. The image is acquired and there is nowhere else to go.” Setting off images allows crowds to condense their energy somewhere.
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
it’s the process of becoming an invisible person.