“Although we typically take our cultural worldview for granted, it is actually a fragile human construction that people spend great energy creating, maintaining, and defending. Since we’re constantly on the brink of realizing that our existence is precarious, we cling… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
“Although we typically take our cultural worldview for granted, it is actually a fragile human construction that people spend great energy creating, maintaining, and… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
“We can reflect on the fact that each of us is, in Otto Rank’s lovely words, a “temporal representative” — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally,… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
“Take all the cultural trappings away and we are all just generic creatures barraged by a continuous stream of sensations, emotions, and events, buffeted… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
If we were immortal, then life would be meaningless, because nothing would be of consequence. Certainly one way of taking the edge off the… — Sheldon Solomon Copy Share Image
