“If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel open, however, is to court danger: a danger inseparable from the enhancement of life.” — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
“The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.” — 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 the mind as anti-machine, delighting in its powers of combination and transgression. They fail as well to appreciate the extend to which the relative presence of these two sides of the mind is influenced by the… — 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 in the midst of an impenetrable darkness. A small area is lighted up: our civilizations, our sciences, our loves. We prove unable to define the place of the lighted area within a larger space devoid of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.” — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
![“They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions. Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.” quote by Roberto Mangabeira Unger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16c/roberto-mangabeira-unger-45804_big-things_they-americans-believe-that-the-terrors_2186421.jpg)
