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There is no self except in relationship to the other. The economic man, the rational actor, the Cartesian “I am” is a delusion that cuts us off from most of what we are, leaving us lonely and small.
Charles Eisenstein • The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
to live an “entirely private life means above all to be deprived of things essential to a truly human life,” by which she meant that one is “deprived of the reality that comes from being seen and heard by others, to be deprived of an ‘objective’ relationship with them that comes from being related to and separated from them through the intermediary... See more
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself. Until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.
Alan Watts | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom • Tweet
Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
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It is an existential project: to construct a world from a decentred point of view other than that of my mere impulse to survive or re-affirm my own identity.
Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
since our hearts are made to find their end in God, we will experience a besetting anxiety and restlessness when we try to love substitutes.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
