“Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind — the mind as… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Machine Copy Share Image
“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Darkness Copy Share Image
“If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Danger 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,… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Death 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… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Hope 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… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Big things 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… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Change 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… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Death Copy Share Image
“The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.” — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Enhancement Copy Share Image
