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“Spockian parents feel it’s their responsibility to make their child into the most all-around perfect adult possible, and although what this leads to may look like “permissiveness,” it’s actually more totalitarian, for the child no longer has a private sphere. His entire being has been taken over by parental aspirations.

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― Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point

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“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: butterflies, caterpillars, philosophy

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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
― Rollo May

tags: philosophy

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“Last but not least, he hated with all the hatred that was in him the rising generation, the appalling boors who find it necessary to talk and laugh at the top of their voices in restaurants and cafes, who jostle you in the street without a word of apology, and who, without expressing or even indicating regret, drive the wheels of a baby-carriage into your legs.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

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“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.”
― Philip K. Dick

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