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“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“Worship is the practice of cultivating reverence that prevents idolatry and affords powerful symbols to what is ultimate.”
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“The Kantian Paradigm embraces what I am calling the Empirical Directive by changing the conception of the self from a substance like Descartes’ thinking thing to a functional experience-organizing energeia which can only be studied by the way it organizes experience.”
― A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism
― A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism
“Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
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