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... See moreNeil Strauss • The Game
Men of this kind are usually irresistible to women.
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
Iris Murdoch’s words: “Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture.”
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
So even behind a “veil of ignorance” people will not choose the same kind of society because, as Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel insists, all notions of justice are “inescapably judgmental.” The idea that “we should not bring moral or religious convictions to bear on public discussions about justice” is frankly impossible.
Timothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Adler was opposed to any kind of dualistic value system that treated the mind as separate from the body—reason as separate from emotion, or the conscious mind as separate from the unconscious mind.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
People are not monads. A real, live human self is always already partial to certain, select others. Morality needs to take this essential fact about human selfhood into account rather than pretend to override it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
The range of our exterior wandering is mirrored by the interior expanse of the soul. “A human being as such is a huge abyss,” he would later muse to his God. “You know the number of hairs on his head, Master, and in you there’s no subtraction from that number; but it’s easier to count his hairs than his moods or the workings of his heart.”