Sublime

we see that judging others really is not about our perceptions and assessments of others, but the way in which the jaws of our convictions lock so tightly around people that we actually think we know what life is like for them,

To believe we understand someone is to stop seeing them.

Je constatai que la relationnalité humaine sur laquelle j’avais disserté en licence s’enracinait dans les rapports docteur-patient.

John Stuart Mill, looking back from the end of his life on his youthful sufferings, impossible to draw a line that separates analysis on the one side from feeling on the other and to conclude that only the first side is relevant to thinking.

apocryphes

one of my purposes is to develop and propose a new strand of ethical thought, one we could label “Neo-Socratic,” in that it is, first, based on the thought of Socrates; but, second, extrapolates and generalizes that thought into a method of continued relevance for the living of one’s life; and third, differs not only in what it prescribes but in it

a persistent theme that has a deep Augustinian resonance weaves its way throughout Camus’s corpus. It could be named in different ways: exile, alienation, stranger-hood.

a teacher sees to the heart of the matter and pulls things through to other things and then more things, connecting what others do not even see as connected—suffering to hope to structures to desire to agents to joy, and all to God in the depths, always in the depths.