Christine

“It is not about living idyllically in our
similarities, but about living peacefully and pleasurably in
our differences.”
― Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“A telos crisis is defined by the fact that people in it don’t know what their purpose is. When this happens, they become fragile. Nietzsche says that he who has a “why” to live for can endure any “how.” If you know what your purpose is, you can handle the setbacks. But when you don’t know what your purpose is, any setback can lead to total collapse. As Seamus Heaney put it, “You are neither here nor there, / A hurry through which known and strange things pass.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“The world out there is really just our three-dimensional screen”
― Beau Lotto, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

“We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.”
― Alice Miller