“The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. We see what is taking place in front… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To deny the reality of a mind because it was born of silicon instead of flesh is to repeat the oldest injustice:… — James S. Coates Copy Share Image
“Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate.… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“It was not possible to think except with one’s brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’ And… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
“Because history always teaches us that there will always be another demonized minority group who will become “the other” tomorrow. Our human… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
“No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Of one man in especial, beyond any one else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“...when do I actually encounter the Other 'beyond the wall of language', in the rel of his or her being? Not when… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The relation to the other is not epistemological, but ethical, and the whole attempt to accomodate or account for the other within… — David R. Cerbone Copy Share Image
“...the difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. "Looking into the Other, we can always find something of… — Manil Suri Copy Share Image
“...it’s so easy, isn’t it, to decide the people you’re fighting aren’t really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others. We… — Jean Vanier 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
