It corresponds to that distanciation without which we would
never become conscious of belonging to a world, a culture, a tradition.
Ricoeur speaks of the «distanciation without which we would
never become conscious of belonging to a world, a culture, a tradition.
Not exact matches
George Orwell said it best in 1984: «Until they
become conscious they will
never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they can not
become conscious.»
He may
never read the Bible, but the value judgments of the Bible, and especially the gospel, have
become in large measure his own standards, even though he gives them little
conscious attention.
Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he
never became eternally and decisively
conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing)
never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is
never attained except through despair.
A man's life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he
never becomes decisively
conscious of himself as spirit, as self, that is, he
never is aware in the deepest sense that there is a God.
Thus, one couple's story of self - discovery and belief in a
conscious approach to relationship - building
became an inspiration for millions of couples around the world to revisit (and sometimes rebuild) their own relationships by asking questions and starting conversations they otherwise might
never have.
If almost anyone else would inject hip - hop into a pre-Civil War film, the result would look silly, but Tarantino pulls it off with ease; one
never even
becomes conscious of the disconnect between period and music.
Tom O, Whether that is a
conscious desire of the (Greens, Liberal Progressives or «Environmentalists») all of whom are patently idealist, and idealism can very easily lead to fascism, I Wholeheartedly agree with you that the consequences of fulfilling [their] desires and aspirations will lead to an inequality of living standards, not only
never seen before, even under the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, but may
become a cause of species differentiation for Homo sapiens, with The Blessed enlightened ones controlling Everything.