“The friend is not another I, but an otherness immanent in selfness, a becoming other of the self. At the point at… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the… — René Girard Copy Share Image
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“When we feel fractured, redundant and nonessential, only bouncing back from lowliness may brighten up the story of our life. In this… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Love is a challenge with an illusion emanating an aura of otherness. Through their unrelenting attention, two smitten people can arouse a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you’re an Orthodox believer, then what sustains this framework is the obligation that you follow. But if you live in a… — Kalid Gilad Copy Share Image
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“We annihilate convention in order to experience the truth of otherness.” — Carolyn Chun Copy Share Image
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
“Language is for itself the order of the Same. The world is its Other. The attestation of this otherness arises from language's… — Paul Ricœur Copy Share Image
“There is an otherness inside us We never touch, no matter how far down our hands reach. It is the past, with… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“There was no one for him to tell, talk to about it, about his fear and suspicion, He trusted no man nor… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive us surreptitiously into a blind alley of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
