"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror."

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Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.289, A&C Black

Hans-Georg Gadamer

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“The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.”

Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Nov 24, 2016
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
“A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.”
“You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.”
“If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.”
“At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon â€• the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.”
“I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.”

Source : Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.77, Canongate Books

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