Sublime

Lernen bedeutet aber nicht, sich streng an Übungen oder Lehrbücher zu halten. Es bedeutet, alles, was man kann, in sich aufzusaugen und dann darauf zu vertrauen, dass man das erworbene Wissen umsetzen kann, ohne lange darüber nachzudenken – instinktiv, aber nicht impulsiv, schnell, aber nicht überstürzt. Es bedeutet die Gewissheit, dass all die

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ALTHOUGH imitation is one of the great instruments used by Providence in bringing our nature towards its perfection, yet if men gave themselves up to imitation entirely, and each followed the other, and so on in an eternal circle, it is easy to see that there never could be any improvement amongst them.

“Girard discovered that most of what we desire is mimetic (mi-met-ik) or imitative, not intrinsic. Humans learn—through imitation—to want the same things other people want, just as they learn how to speak the same language and play by the same cultural rules. Imitation plays a far more pervasive role in our society than anyone had ever openly... See more