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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self–transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every…
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“Religion (…) does not refer to a system that has necessarily to do with a concept of God, or with idols, or even to a system perceived as religion, but to any group-shared system of thought and action, that offers the individuals their frame of orientation and an object of devotion. Indeed, in this broad…
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“Many of these same young people (…) had not progressed from freedom from to freedom to. They simply rebelled without attempting to find a goal toward which to move, except that of freedom from restrictions and dependence. Like that of their bourgeois parents, their motto was: ‘New is beautiful,’ and they developed and almost phobic…
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“The words ‘mean’, ‘mind’ and ‘memory’ share common roots, so any account of meaning that does not begin in the raw stuff of human consciousness is off to a poor start. The left hemisphere on its own puts words together using often complex syntax and makes a kind of sense of them. But the real…
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“Left hemisphere attention is sharply restricted in space and time (…). It tends towards precision, but at the expense of depth. It is no longer true to the expansive, always moving, always changing, endlessly interconnected nature of reality. One way of putting it is that the left hemisphere can provide some sorts of knowledge about…
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“Piaget’s value system considers rule by cooperation a more satisfactory equilibration in human relations than rule by authority. (…) Rigid traditionalists assume that the answer to the question ‘what is the good?’ can be – has been – answered permanently, and concretely, with the list of laws. (…) Adherents of tradition rely on the attribution…
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“Life without law remains chaotic, affectively intolerable. Life that is pure law becomes sterile, equally unbearable. The domination of chaos or sterility equally breeds murderous resentment and hatred.” Peterson, J. (1999) – Maps of Meaning, p. 397
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“Politics and religion are both expressions of our underlying moral psychology, and an understanding of that psychology can help to bring people together.” “(…) when a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. The true believers produce pious fantasies…
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“If, whilst I am, I am as I should be, what do I care more? And thus let me lose self every hour, and be twenty successive selfs, or new selfs, ‘tis all one to me: so [long as] I lose not my opinion [i.e. my overall outlook, my character, my moral identity]. If I…
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“I had been continually exhorted to define my purpose in life, but I was now beginning to doubt whether life might not be too complex a thing to be kept within the bounds of a single formulated purpose, whether it would not burst its way out, or if the purpose were too strong, perhaps grow…
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“Although the ego center of our language center prefers defining our self as individual and solid, most of us are aware that we are made up of trillions of cells, gallons of water, and ultimately everything about us exists in a constant and dynamic state of activity. My left hemisphere had been trained to perceive…
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“Beauty is rarely mentioned in contemporary art critiques: in a reflection of the left hemisphere’s values, a work is now conventionally praised as ‘strong’ or ‘challenging’, in the rhetoric of power, the only rhetoric in all our relations with the world and with one another that we are now permitted. It has become somehow unsophisticated…
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