“Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.”
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“Jokes and folklore and poetic metaphor, the wisdom of folly, tell the secret truth.”
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
― Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
“The alternative to dualism is dialectics: that is to say, love”
― Love's Body
― Love's Body
“To be alive is to be burning”
― Love's Body
― Love's Body
“The opposite of war, the true war, is poetry”
― Love's Body
― Love's Body
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