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Joeri said:
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De titel van het boek is veelzeggend, gegeven er vanuit meerdere filosofisch en wetenschappelijke perspectieven wordt gesteld en onderbouwd dat de mens niet in essentie iets ís, maar wordt geconstitueerd en bemiddeld door datgene waarin de mens is in
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“My evidence—such as it is—is almost always intimate. I feel this—do you? I’m struck by this thought—are you?”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“When people who don't know you well admire you, they are seeing their projected illusion, not your real self.
In contrast, when people who know you well respect you, it is probably because you deserve it.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
In contrast, when people who know you well respect you, it is probably because you deserve it.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
“Still, somehow, inexplicably, “man-hater” is a word tossed around with insouciance as if this was a real thing that did harm. Meanwhile we have no real word for men who kill women. Is the word just “men”?”
― Sex Object: A Memoir
― Sex Object: A Memoir
“progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”
― Feel Free: Essays
― Feel Free: Essays
“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
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