Alienation Quote by Eugene Ionesco

“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.” quote by Eugene Ionesco — Download Open image

“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”

Eugene Ionesco

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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

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“All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.”

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That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

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“I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter, an enormous, dazzling -why- that blots out everything, cancels out, destroys all meaning. All individual intelligence. When one has understood, one stops, satisfied with what…

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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self. Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries. New fields of energy…

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I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only for the anonymous man who makes sucking noises on the street, not only for the rapist or the judge who acquits him, but for what the Greeks called philo-aphilos, 'hate in love,' for the men…

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