“To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is, however, is to betray it. To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
“Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind — the mind as machine and… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“He faces the burdens of belittlement a third time as he grows older, and settles into an existence that he has embraced, or that… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is,… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions. Use little things to break big things,… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“In such a view, time is not emergent. It is, in fact, the only aspect of reality that cannot emerge from a more fundamental… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid being transfixed… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.” — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
