Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“A positive response to any situation is the key to the feeling of well-being. The more we practice it the easier it… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed… — Samantha Dunn Copy Share Image
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely,… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first. — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
“...to see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
Science can only be comprehended epistemologically, which means as one category of possible knowledge, as long as knowledge is not equated either… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“The highest task of education is—to take command of one’s transcendental self—to be at once the I of its I. It is… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
