Zonathan Reader

“How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and never perceive my own?...How can I enter into dialogue if I am closed to - and even offended by - the contribution of others? At the point of encounter there are neither yet ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

“Love of self is still determined by negativity insofar as it devalues and wards off the Other in favor of the Own.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

“Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World