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“It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.”
― Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
― Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
“We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives”
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“We know ourselves only
as far as we've been tested.
I tell you this
from my unknown heart.”
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as far as we've been tested.
I tell you this
from my unknown heart.”
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“All memory is individual, unreproducible—it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
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