Pat Norman
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“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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“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
“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.”
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
― The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
“(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
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