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But once in a lifetime, maybe, you look at a stranger and you see a soul, a glorious presence out of place in the world. And if you love God, every choice is made for you. There is no turning away. You’ve seen the mystery—you’ve seen what life is about. What it’s for. And a soul has no earthly qualities, no history among the things of this world, n
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the philosopher is a man who loves the “vision of truth.”
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
“No one truly exists in the real world because no one knows all that he is to other human beings, all that they say behind his back, and all the foolishness which the future will bring him.”
Delmore Schwartz • In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook)
“But a person's outward appearance does not define the boundaries of their internal feelings, Ivan knows. Plain, unappealing people are by no means exempt from the experience of strong passions.” - Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (p 24)
Strangle him? Salute him? Put him in a novel? You are seeing suffering, Robert used to say when confronted with a horrible person. You are seeing someone in pain.
Andrew Sean Greer • Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books Book 2)
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
This is where the Good enters. It is the transcendental reality that lights the path to “unselfing”—a term whose therapeutic character Murdoch understandably preferred to Weil’s apocalyptic “decreation.” The Good invites us to cast away our own self, allowing us to see and respond to fellow human beings in all of their subjectivity. To seek the Goo
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