Impersonal World Quotes

“Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, impersonal mass society. He has come to feel himself an outsider even within his own human society. He is trebly alienated: a stranger to God, to nature, and to the gigantic social apparatus that supplies his material wants.

But the worst and final form of alienation, toward which indeed the others tend, is man's alienation from his own self. In a society that requires of man only that he perform competently his own particular social function, man becomes identified with this function, and the rest of his being is allowed to subsist as best it can - usually to be dropped below the surface of consciousness and forgotten.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.”
― Criss Jami, Healology