Pat Norman
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“This last point is a request to the English-speaking reader. In France, certain half-witted ‘commentators’ persist in labelling me a ‘structuralist’. I have been unable to get it into their tiny minds that I have used none of the methods, concepts, or key terms that characterize structural analysis. I should be grateful if a more serious public would free me from a connection that certainly does me honour, but that I have not deserved.”
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution. We became too self aware; nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody’s nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
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“(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.”
― Through a Glass, Darkly
― Through a Glass, Darkly
“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.”
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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