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Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.
Marcel Proust • Swann's Way
Weil instead asserts that values and sensations are coterminous. As Peter Winch notes, “our concepts, which give the world its shape, are unintelligible except as concepts exercised by beings whose common life exhibits certain aspirations and values.”8 This interpretation—one where the epistemological is the ethical—seems to pull the rug out from u
... See moreRobert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
‘being seen is at the basis of creative looking’. Perception – looking at things – is an addition to, but must never be separated from, apperception – seeing oneself.
Adam Phillips • Winnicott
I don't see with my eyes. I see with my mouth. That is to say, I see with language. Things occur as they occur because of language. What distinguishing is, is to take something like an undifferentiated mass and to bring forth from that mass a realm of possibility. Distinction gives existence. It makes existence possible.
Quand la perception est juste, l’attention profonde et la connaissance étendue, alors l’on aborde le quotidien dans un état d’émerveillement perpétuel.
Irvin Yalom • La Méthode Schopenhauer (Littérature) (French Edition)
THE story is told (by Kierkegaard) of the absent-minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows he exists until, one fine morning, he wakes up to find himself dead.
William Barrett • Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
“You will understand neither the body nor consciousness unless you go beyond both.”
Gilbert Schultz • Self Aware
Merleau-Ponty, que Hadot voit comme un philosophe contemporain mettant en œuvre des exercices spirituels, affirme également de son côté que, « pour retrouver la fonction entière du philosophe, il faut se rappeler que même les philosophes-auteurs que nous lisons et que nous sommes n’ont jamais cessé de reconnaître pour patron un homme qui n’écrivait
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