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Perhaps the real question here is what it means to be a 'self-conscious political actor'. Philosophers tend to define human consciousness in terms of self-awareness; neuroscientists, on the other hand, tell us we spend the overwhelming maj
“When it comes to lying, what one must consider is not the plausibility of the fib but the greed, fear, and stupidity of the receiver. One never lies to people; they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand and choose the level of self-delusion that fits their foolishness and moral turpitude.”
― El laberinto de los espíritus
― El laberinto de los espíritus
“Even though cultural changes cannot be measured on a day-to-day basis, changes that accrue over decades must be pursued daily.”
― Understanding A Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
― Understanding A Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
“Between what we know and what we cannot hope to know about how we come to be as we are lies an emotional dumping ground into which exceptional writers pour all the art they are capable of making.”
― Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
― Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
“We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.”
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“He does not understand yet that sometimes the monster is other people, sometimes the monster squats unseen inside one’s own heart, and sometimes the monster is the brute fact of time itself.”
― The Porpoise
― The Porpoise
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