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Converting others being the only antidote to one’s own doubt.

Adam Phillips • On Wanting to Change

If anthropology proved less than revelatory in that case, or rather if what it revealed was only that globalization and technology have made ways of being across cultures increasingly generic, the discipline has equipped Asya with a way to organize her thoughts about the world, which, we learn, has long been useful in making sense of a life without... See more

Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams

Goodness is an acquired taste.

Russell D. Roberts • Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

preference for personal integrity is based on the moral absurdity

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

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Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

We mustn’t let knowing do the work of acknowledging; otherwise we can end up disbelieving – that is, being unable to prove – the existence of other people and then of ourselves.

Adam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

all identity is in part myth, the kind that we can use to sort out living, for better or worse, depending upon its uses.

Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

I don’t think most people are good, or bad, for that matter. I think people are neutral. From a distance, they look almost interchangeable. It seems to me that “good people” can become “bad people” when provided the opportunity within an existing power structure—to claim and exert power at a deadly cost to others and get away with it.

Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

most plausible or defensible—