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distorcemos os sonhos ao tentar reproduzi-los; aí reencontramos em ação o processo que descrevemos como a elaboração secundária (e muitas vezes mal formulada) do sonho pela instância encarregada do pensamento normal
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essa mesma distorção não passa de uma parte da elaboração a que os pensamentos oníricos são regularmente submetidos em decorrência da censura do sonho.
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a extensão do determinismo nos eventos psíquicos. Não há neles nada de arbitrário. De modo bastante geral, pode-se demonstrar que, se um elemento deixa de ser determinado por certa cadeia de pensamentos, sua determinação é imediatamente comandada por outra. Por exemplo, posso tentar pensar arbitrariamente num número, mas isso é impossível: o número que me ocorre é inequívoca e necessariamente determinado por pensamentos que haja em mim, ainda que estejam distantes de minha intenção imediata.
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A dúvida sobre a exatidão do relato de um sonho ou de certos pormenores dele é também um derivado da censura onírica, da resistência à irrupção dos pensamentos oníricos na consciência. Essa resistência não se esgotou nem mesmo com os deslocamentos e substituições que ocasionou;
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tudo o que interrompe o progresso do trabalho analítico é uma resistência.
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num número bastante grande de casos, pode-se reconstruir, a partir de um único fragmento remanescente, não o sonho, é verdade - o que, de qualquer modo, não tem nenhuma importância -, mas todos os pensamentos oníricos.
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É muito mais freqüente o sonho arrastar consigo para o esquecimento os resultados de minha atividade interpretativa do que minha atividade intelectual conseguir preservá-lo na memória.
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o estado de sono possibilita a formação de sonhos porque reduz o poder da censura endopsíquica.
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Was there a life after death? This was another question the cat was blissfully unaware
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Was there a life after death? This was another question the cat was blissfully unaware of.
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The earliest Greek philosophers are sometimes called natural philosophers because they were mainly concerned with the natural world and its processes.
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We could say that the natural philosophers took the first step in the direction of scientific reasoning, thereby becoming the precursors of what was to become science.
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Thales is also supposed to have said that ‘all things are full of gods.’ What
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This unshakable faith in human reason is called rationalism. A rationalist is someone who believes that human reason is the primary source of our knowledge of the world.
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‘Everything flows,’ said Heraclitus. Everything is in constant flux and movement, nothing is abiding. Therefore we ‘cannot step twice into the same river.’
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The word ‘a-tom’ means ‘un-cuttable.’ For Democritus it was all-important to establish that the constituent parts that everything else was composed of could not be divided indefinitely into smaller parts.
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Democritus’s atom theory marked the end of Greek natural philosophy for the time being. He agreed with Heraclitus that everything in nature ‘flowed,’ since forms come and go. But behind everything that flowed there were some eternal and immutable things that did not flow. Democritus called them atoms.
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Before the development of modern medicine, the most widely accepted view was that sickness was due to supernatural causes. The word ‘influenza’ actually means a malign influence from the stars.
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The word ‘sophist’ means a wise and informed person.
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The Sophists chose to concern themselves with man and his place in society.
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who Socrates ‘really’ was is relatively unimportant. It is Plato’s portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2,500 years.
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Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to ‘give birth’ to the correct insight, since real understanding must come from within.
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I am referring to all the schoolmasters and self-opinionated know-it-alls who are satisfied with what little they know, or who boast of knowing a whole lot about subjects they haven’t the faintest notion of. You have probably come across a few of these sophists in your young life. A real philosopher, Sophie, is a completely different kettle of fish – the direct opposite, in fact. A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world.
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When we do wrong it is because we don’t know any better. That is why it is so important to go on learning
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The birds were chirping so energetically that Sophie could hardly keep from laughing. The morning dew twinkled in the grass like drops of crystal. Once again she was struck by the incredible wonder of the world.
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Plato set up his own school of philosophy in a grove not far from Athens, named after the legendary Greek hero Academus. The school was therefore known as the Academy.
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Briefly, we can establish that Plato was concerned with the relationship between what is eternal and immutable, on the one hand, and what ‘flows,’ on the other.
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we can only have inexact conceptions of things we perceive with our senses. But we can have true knowledge of things we understand with our reason.
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Nothing in the sensory world is, there are only things that come to be and pass away.
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This world of ideas cannot be perceived by the senses, but the ideas (or forms) are eternal and immutable.
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Like every aspect of Plato’s philosophy, his political philosophy is characterized by rationalism.
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Plato’s ideal state is not unlike the old Hindu caste system, in which each and every person has his or her particular function for the good of the whole.
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he believed women could govern just as effectively as men for the simple reason that the rulers govern by virtue of their reason.
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In Plato’s ideal state, rulers and warriors are not allowed family life or private property.
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(Plato was the first philosopher to advocate state-organized nursery schools and full-time education.)
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he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
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Aristotle, on the other hand, was preoccupied with just these changes – or with what we nowadays describe as natural processes.
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the ‘idea’ horse was simply a concept that we humans had formed after seeing a certain number of horses. The ‘idea’ or ‘form’ horse thus had no existence of its own. To Aristotle, the ‘idea’ or the ‘form’ horse was made up of the horse’s characteristics – which define what we today call the horse species.
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to Aristotle the ‘forms’ were in the things, because they were the particular characteristics of these things.
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The highest degree of reality, in Plato’s theory, was that which we think with our reason. It was equally apparent to Aristotle that the highest degree of reality is that which we perceive with our senses. Plato thought that all the things we see in the natural world were purely reflections of things that existed in the higher reality of the world of ideas – and thereby in the human soul. Aristotle thought the opposite: things that are in the human soul were purely reflections of natural objects. So nature is the real world.
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We have no innate ideas, as Plato held, but we have the innate faculty of organizing all sensory impressions into categories and classes.
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Similarly Aristotle believed that everything in nature has the potentiality of realizing, or achieving, a specific ‘form.’
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The ‘material cause’ is that the moisture (the clouds) was there at the precise moment when the air cooled. The ‘efficient cause’ is that the moisture cools, and the ‘formal cause’ is that the ‘form,’ or nature of the water, is to fall to the earth. But if you stopped there, Aristotle would add that it rains because plants and animals need rainwater in order to grow. This he called the ‘final cause.’ Aristotle assigns the raindrops a life-task, or ‘purpose.’
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it can naturally be claimed that there is water in the rivers because animals and humans need water to live. But now we are talking about God’s purpose. The raindrops and the waters of the river have no interest in our welfare.
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can quickly develop into mob
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This period, which lasted for about 300 years, is known as Hellenism. The term Hellenism refers to both the period of time and the Greek-dominated culture that prevailed
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This period, which lasted for about 300 years, is known as Hellenism. The term Hellenism refers to both the period of time and the Greek-dominated culture that prevailed in the three Hellenistic kingdoms of Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt.
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Hellenistic philosophy continued to work with the problems raised by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Common to them all was their desire to discover how mankind should best live and die. They were concerned with ethics. In the new civilization, this became the central philosophical project. The main emphasis was on finding out what true happiness was and how it could be achieved.
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The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True happiness lies in not being dependent on such random and fleeting things. And because happiness does not consist in benefits of this kind, it is within everyone’s reach. Moreover, having once been attained, it can never be lost.
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The Cynics were instrumental in the development of the Stoic school of philosophy, which grew up in Athens around 300 B.C.
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the Stoics believed that everyone was a part of the same common sense – or ‘logos.’ They thought that each person was like a world in miniature, or ‘microcosmos,’ which is a reflection of the ‘macrocosmos.’
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the Stoics erased the difference between the individual and the universe, they also denied any conflict between ‘spirit’ and ‘matter.’ There is only one nature, they averred. This kind of idea is called monism
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Cicero (106–43 B.C.). It was he who formed the very concept of ‘humanism’ – that is, a view of life that has the individual as its central focus.
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Even today we use the term ‘stoic calm’ about someone who does not let his feelings take over.
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‘Death does not concern us,’ Epicurus said quite simply, ‘because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.’
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The word ‘epicurean’ is used in a negative sense nowadays to describe someone who lives only for pleasure.
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Swami Vivekenanda, an Indian who was instrumental in bringing Hinduism to the west, once said, ‘Just as certain world religions say that people who do not believe in a personal God outside themselves are atheists, we say that a person who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the splendor of one’s own soul is what we call atheism.’
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cul-de-sac
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The ancient Indians worshipped the celestial god Dyaus, which in Sanskrit means the sky, day, heaven/Heaven. In Greek this god is called Zeus, in Latin, Jupiter (actually iov-pater, or ‘Father Heaven’), and in Old Norse, Tyr. So the names Dyaus, Zeus, lov, and Tyr are dialectal variants of the same word.
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Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.
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In a.d. 330 Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople, the city he had founded at the approach to the Black Sea. Many people considered the new city the “second Rome.” In 395 the Roman Empire was divided in two – a Western Empire with Rome as its center, and an Eastern Empire with the new city of Constantinople as its capital. Rome was plundered by barbarians in 410, and in 476 the whole of the Western Empire was destroyed. The Eastern Empire continued to exist as a state right up until 1453 when the Turks conquered Constantinople.’ ‘And its name got changed to Istanbul?’ ‘That’s right! Istanbul is its latest name. Another date we should notice is 529. That was the year when the church closed Plato’s Academy in Athens.
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The year 529 thus became a symbol of the way the Christian Church put the lid on Greek philosophy.
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at the end of the Middle Ages, all three streams came together in Northern Italy. The Arabic influence came from the Arabs in Spain, the Greek influence from Greece and the Byzantine Empire. And now we see the beginning of the Renaissance, the “rebirth” of antique culture.
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there is no dramatic break with Greek philosophy the minute we enter the Christian Middle Ages. Much of Greek philosophy was carried over to the new age through Fathers of the Church like St. Augustine.’
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‘The greatest and most significant philosopher of this period was St. Thomas Aquinas, who lived from 1225 to 1274.
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We can hear the thunder even if we are blind, and we can see the lightning even if we are deaf. It’s best if we can both see and hear, of course. But there is no contradiction between what we see and what we hear. On the contrary – the two impressions reinforce each other.’
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well-to-do
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‘Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other – and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.’
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‘An incunabulum?’ ‘Actually, it means “cradle.” The word is used about books printed in the cradle days of printing. That is, before 1500.’
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the Renaissance resulted in a new view of mankind. The humanism of the Renaissance brought a new belief in man and his worth, in striking contrast to the biased medieval emphasis on the sinful nature of man.
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Many held the view that God was also present in his creation. If he is indeed infinite, he must be present in everything. This idea is called pantheism.
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An exaggerated belief in the importance of reason had been valid all through the Middle Ages. Now it was said that every investigation of natural phenomena must be based on observation, experience, and experiment. We call this the empirical method.’
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‘It’s not a silly question if you can’t answer it.
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All the planets travel in elliptical orbits round the sun as the result of two unequal movements: first, the rectilinear movement they had when the solar system was formed, and second, the movement toward the sun due to gravitation.’
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Sophie pretended to be asleep even though she knew her mother wouldn’t believe it. She knew her mother knew that Sophie knew her mother wouldn’t believe it either. Nevertheless her mother pretended to believe that Sophie was asleep. She sat on the edge of Sophie’s bed and stroked her hair.
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One of the Baroque period’s favorite sayings was the Latin expression “carpe diem” – “seize the day.” Another Latin expression that was widely quoted was “memento mori,” which means “Remember that you must die.”
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in Macbeth, he says: Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.’
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‘Descartes maintains that we cannot accept anything as being true unless we can clearly and distinctly perceive it. To achieve this can require the breaking down of a compound problem into as many single factors as possible.
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one thing had to be true, and that was that he doubted. When he doubted, he had to be thinking, and because he was thinking, it had to be certain that he was a thinking being. Or, as he himself expressed it: Cogito, ergo sum.’
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Descartes now maintains that there are two different forms of reality – or two “substances.” One substance is thought, or the “mind,” the other is extension, or matter.
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We say that Descartes is a dualist, which means that he effects a sharp division between the reality of thought and extended reality.
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The bodily processes do not have the same freedom, they obey their own laws. But what we think with our reason does not happen in the body – it happens in the mind, which is completely independent of extended reality.
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Spinoza does not have the dualistic view of reality that Descartes had. We say he is a monist. That is, he reduces nature and the condition of all things to one single substance.’
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Spinoza maintained that all material things and things that happen around us are an expression of God or nature. So it follows that all thoughts that we think are also God’s or nature’s thoughts. For everything is One. There is only one God, one nature, or one Substance.’
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You may have the right to move your thumb any way you choose. But your thumb can only move according to its nature. It cannot jump off your hand and dance about the room. In the same way you also have your place in the structure of existence, my dear. You are Sophie, but you are also a finger of God’s body.’
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So God – or nature – is the “inner cause” of everything that happens. This means that everything in the material world happens through necessity. Spinoza had a determinist view of the material, or natural, world.’
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‘Obviously the tree with the best conditions for growing.’ ‘According to Spinoza, this tree is free. It has its full freedom to develop its inherent abilities. But if it is an apple tree it will not have the ability to bear pears or plums. The same applies to us humans. We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions, for instance. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.’
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everything is related, even that everything is One. The goal is to comprehend everything that exists in an all-embracing perception. Only then will we achieve true happiness and contentment. This was what Spinoza called seeing everything “sub specie aeternitatis.”’ ‘Which means what?’ ‘To see everything from the perspective of eternity.
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Locke’s claim is that all our thoughts and ideas issue from that which we have taken in through the senses. Before we perceive anything, the mind is a “tabula rasa” – or an empty slate.’ ‘You
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he held that certain ethical principles applied to everyone. In other words, he believed in the idea of a natural right, and that was a rationalistic feature of his thought. An equally rationalistic feature was that Locke believed that it was inherent in human reason to be able to know that God exists.’
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Locke’s view was that to ensure a legal State, the people’s representatives must make the laws and the king or the government must apply them.’
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Hume emphasizes that all the elements we put together in our ideas must at some time have entered the mind in the form of “simple impressions.” A person who has never seen gold will never be able to visualize streets of gold.’
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‘An agnostic is someone who holds that the existence of God or a god can neither be proved nor disproved.
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I wonder if the child is not also the greater philosopher? He comes utterly without preconceived opinions. And that, my dear Sophie, is the philosopher’s most distinguishing virtue. The child perceives the world as it is, without putting more into things than he experiences.’
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When we speak of the “laws of nature” or of “cause and effect,” we are actually speaking of what we expect, rather than what is “reasonable.” The laws of nature are neither reasonable nor unreasonable, they simply are.
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One of the main concerns of philosophy is to warn people against jumping to conclusions.
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‘What about Hilde herself?’ ‘She is an angel, Sophie.’ ‘An angel?’ ‘Hilde is the one this “spirit” turns to.’ ‘Are you saying that Albert Knag tells Hilde about us?’ ‘Or writes about us. For we cannot perceive the matter itself that our reality is made of, that much we have learned. We cannot know whether our external reality is made of sound waves or of paper and writing. According to Berkeley, all we can know is that we are spirit.’ ‘And Hilde is an angel …’ ‘Hilde is an angel, yes. Let that be the last word. Happy birthday, Hilde!’ Suddenly the room was filled with a bluish light.
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Hildegard of Bingen was a preacher, a writer, a doctor, a botanist, and a biologist. She was ‘perhaps an example of the fact that women were often more practical, more scientific even, in the Middle Ages.’
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‘An Archimedian point?’ ‘Archimedes was a Greek scientist who said “Give me a firm point on which to stand and I will move the earth.” That’s the kind of point we must find to move ourselves out of the major’s inner universe.’
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‘I have to go to school. We are having a class get-together and then we get our grades.’ ‘Drop it. If we are only fictive, it’s pure imagination that candy and soda have any taste.’ ‘But my grades …’ ‘Sophie, either you are living in a wondrous universe on a tiny planet in one of many hundred billion galaxies – or else you are the result of a few electromagnetic impulses in the major’s mind. And you are talking about grades! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!’
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Now the Enlightenment philosophers saw it as their duty to lay a foundation for morals, religion, and ethics in accordance with man’s immutable reason. This led to the enlightenment movement.’
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Rousseau proposed the catchphrase, “We should return to nature.” For nature is good, and man is “by nature” good; it is civilization which ruins him.
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‘By Deism we mean a belief that God created the world ages and ages ago, but has not revealed himself to the world since. Thus God is reduced to the “Supreme Being” who only reveals himself to mankind through nature and natural laws, never in any “supernatural” way. We find a similar “philosophical God” in the writings of Aristotle. For him, God was the “formal cause” or “first mover.”’
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‘Kant made an important distinction between “the thing in itself” and “the thing for me.” We can never have certain knowledge of things “in themselves.” We can only know how things “appear” to us.
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But when, for example, we ask whether the universe is finite or infinite, we are asking about a totality of which we ourselves are a tiny part. We can therefore never completely know this totality.’
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Kant said something to that effect. We cannot expect to understand what we are. Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.’
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Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.’ ‘So when I do something, I must make sure I want everybody else to do the same if they are in the same situation.’
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Only when we follow our “practical reason” – which enables us to make moral choices – do we exercise our free will, because when we conform to moral law, it is we who make the law we are conforming to.’ ‘Yes, that’s true in a way. It is me, or something in me, which tells me not to be mean to others.’ ‘So when you choose not to be mean – even if it is against your own interests – you are then acting freely.’ ‘You’re not especially free or independent if you just do whatever you want, in any case.’
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If he lets the sky go dark or elephants fly, I shall only smile. But seven plus five is twelve. That’s a fact that survives all his comic-strip effects. Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales.’
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The theme of unrequited love was introduced as early as 1774 by Goethe in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
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Novalis could therefore say “the path of mystery leads inwards.” He was saying that man bears the whole universe within himself and comes closest to the mystery of the world by stepping inside himself.’
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Fichte said that nature stems from a higher, unconscious imagination. Schelling said explicitly that the world is “in God.” God is aware of some of it, he believed, but there are other aspects of nature which represent the unknown in God. For God also has a dark side.’
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The fairy tale gave the writer free rein to exploit his “universe-creating imagination.” And even the creative act was not always completely conscious. The writer could experience that his story was being written by some innate force.
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This form of disillusion is called “romantic irony.” Henrik Ibsen, for example, lets one of the characters in Peer Gynt say: “One cannot die in the middle of Act Five.”’
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‘The statement is so paradoxical that we can certainly emphasize it with a new section.’ ‘What did you mean by that?’ ‘Oh, nothing, Sophie.
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Hegel said that “truth is subjective,” thus rejecting the existence of any “truth” above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge, he said.’
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History is in a constant state of change, so how can it be a fixed point?’ ‘A river is also in a constant state of change. That doesn’t mean you can’t talk about it. But you cannot say at which place in the valley the river is the “truest” river.’ ‘No, because it’s just as much river all the way through.’ ‘So to Hegel, history was like a running river.
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You can therefore never claim that any particular thought is correct for ever and ever. But the thought can be correct from where you stand.’
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‘Hegel pointed out that as regards philosophical reflection, also, reason is dynamic; it’s a process, in fact. And the “truth” is this same process, since there are no criteria beyond the historical process itself that can determine what is the most true or the most reasonable.’
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‘Hegel claimed that the “world spirit” is developing toward an ever-expanding knowledge of itself.
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Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process.’
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‘He also called these three stages of knowledge thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. You could, for example, say that Descartes’s rationalism was a thesis – which was contradicted by Hume’s empirical antithesis. But the contradiction, or the tension between two modes of thought, was resolved in Kant’s synthesis. Kant agreed with the rationalists in some things and with the empiricists in others.
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There’s no need to have an opinion on something everyone agrees on. And the more grossly they expressed themselves about women’s inferiority, the stronger became the negation.’
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You can’t reflect on your existence without immediately realizing that you won’t always exist. The tension between “being” and “nothing” becomes resolved in the concept of “becoming.” Because if something is in the process of becoming, it both is and is not.’
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‘Finally the girl’s mother gets absolutely maddened by her daughter’s overobedience, and shouts: Stop being such a goodygoody! And the girl answers: Okay, Mom.’ ‘I would have slapped her.’ ‘Perhaps. But what would you have done if the girl had answered instead: But I want to be a goody-goody?’ ‘That would have been an odd answer. Maybe I would have slapped her anyway.’ ‘In other words, the situation was deadlocked. The dialectic tension had come to a point where something had to happen.’
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‘In the same way that a baby is born into a language, it is also born into its historical background. And nobody has a “free” relationship to that kind of background. He who does not find his place within the state is therefore an unhistorical person. This
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an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can’t ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.’
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Sophie felt she might spend a lifetime staring at this water and to her dying day it would still remain an unfathomable mystery.
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To Kierkegaard, Christianity was both so overwhelming and so irrational that it had to be an either/or. It was not good being “rather” or “to some extent” religious. Because either Jesus rose on Easter Day – or he did not. And if he really did rise from the dead, if he really died for our sake – then this is so overwhelming that it must permeate our entire life.’
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To Kierkegaard, religion and knowledge were like fire and water. It was not enough to believe that Christianity is “true.” Having a Christian faith meant following a Christian way of life.’
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‘According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual’s life. It is important to find “the truth for me.”
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‘You can never know whether a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don’t think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.’
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‘Kierkegaard believed that there were three different forms of life. He himself used the term stages. He calls them the aesthetic stage, the ethical
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‘Kierkegaard believed that there were three different forms of life. He himself used the term stages. He calls them the aesthetic stage, the ethical stage, and the religious stage.
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‘He who lives at the aesthetic stage lives for the moment and grasps every opportunity of enjoyment. Good is whatever is beautiful, satisfying, or pleasant. This person lives wholly in the world of the senses, and is a slave to his own desires and moods. Everything that is boring is bad.’
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‘A person who lives at the aesthetic stage can easily experience angst, or a sense of dread, and a feeling of emptiness. If this happens, there is also hope. According to Kierkegaard, angst is almost positive. It is an expression of the fact that the individual is in an “existential situation,” and can now elect to make the great leap to a higher stage.
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‘And so perhaps you will begin to live at the ethical stage. This is characterized by seriousness and consistency of moral choices. This approach is not unlike Kant’s ethics of duty. You try to live by the law of morals. Kierkegaard, like Kant, drew attention first and foremost to human temperament. The important thing is not what you may think is precisely right or wrong. What matters is that you choose to have an opinion at all on what is right or wrong.
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Kierkegaard never claimed that the ethical stage was satisfactory. Even a dutiful person will eventually get tired of always being dedicated and meticulous. Lots of people experience that sort of fatigue reaction late in life. Some relapse into the reflective life of their aesthetic stage.
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‘But others make a new leap to the religious stage. They take the “jump into the abyss” of Faith’s “seventy thousand fathoms.” They choose faith in preference to aesthetic pleasure and reason’s call of duty. And although it can be “terrible to jump into the open arms of the living God,” as Kierkegaard put it, it is the only path to redemption.’
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Before the evening was over they had agreed on everything, from paper lanterns to a philosophical quiz with a prize. The prize should preferably be a book about philosophy for young people. If there was such a thing! Sophie was not at all sure.
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‘The red cock has crowed!’
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Instead of great speculative systems, we had what we call an existential philosophy or a philosophy of action. This was what Marx meant when he observed that until now, “philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”
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‘Hegel called the force that drives history forward world spirit or world reason. This, Marx claimed, is upside down. He wished to show that material changes are the ones that affect history. “Spiritual relations” do not create material change, it is the other way about. Material change creates new spiritual relations. Marx particularly emphasized that it was the economic forces in society that created change and thus drove history forward.’
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It is the interactive effect of society’s basis on its superstructure. If Marx had rejected this interaction, he would have been a mechanical materialist. But because Marx realized that there was an interactive or dialectic relation between bases and superstructure, we say that he is a dialectical materialist.
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“the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.”
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‘Marx believed that in all phases of history there has been a conflict between two dominant classes of society. In antiquity’s slave society, the conflict was between free citizen and slave. In the feudal society of the Middle Ages, it was between feudal lord and serf; later on, between aristocrat and citizen. But in Marx’s own time, in what he called a bourgeois or capitalist society, the conflict was first and foremost between the capitalists and the workers, or the proletariat. So the conflict stood between those who own the means of production and those who do not. And since the “upper classes” do not voluntarily relinquish their power, change can only come about through revolution.’
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The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They
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‘A moral philosopher called John Rawls attempted to say something about it with the following example: Imagine you were a member of a distinguished council whose task it was to make all the laws for a future society.’ ‘I wouldn’t mind at all being on that council.’ ‘They are obliged to consider absolutely every detail, because as soon as they reach an agreement – and everybody has signed the laws – they will all drop dead.’ ‘Oh …’ ‘But they will immediately come to life again in the society they have legislated for. The point is that they have no idea which position they will have in society.’
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And like the little rowboat floating on the surface in the bay at Lillesand, she herself was just a nutshell on the surface of life.
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One might just as well say that she herself was nothing but a conglomeration of protein compounds that had suddenly come to life one day in a ‘hot little pool.’ But she was more than that. She was Hilde Møller Knag.
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Sartre himself spent a lot of time in cafés. He met his life-long companion Simone de Beauvoir in a café. She was also an existential philosopher.’
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‘Sartre said that “existentialism is humanism.” By that he meant that the existentialists start from nothing but humanity itself.
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‘The key word in Sartre’s philosophy, as in Kierkegaard’s, is “existence.” But existence did not mean the same as being alive. Plants and animals are also alive, they exist, but they do not have to think about what it implies. Man is the only living creature that is conscious of its own existence. Sartre said that a material thing is simply “in itself,” but mankind is “for itself.” The being of man is therefore not the same as the being of things.’
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When people realize they are alive and will one day die – and there is no meaning to cling to – they experience angst, said Sartre. You may recall that angst, a sense of dread, was also characteristic of Kierkegaard’s description of a person in an existential situation.’
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‘Sartre says that man feels alien in a world without meaning. When he describes man’s “alienation,” he is echoing the central ideas of Hegel and Marx. Man’s feeling of alienation in the world creates a sense of despair, boredom, nausea, and absurdity.’
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Those who thus slip into the anonymous masses will never be other than members of the impersonal flock, having fled from themselves into self-deception.
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Sartre believed that life must have meaning. It is an imperative. But it is we ourselves who must create this meaning in our own lives. To exist is to create your own life.’
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‘Tell me first of all what you saw when you came in here.’ ‘The first thing I saw was that you weren’t here.’ ‘Isn’t it strange that the first thing you noticed was something that was absent?’ ‘Maybe, but it was you I was supposed to meet.’ ‘Sartre uses just such a café visit to demonstrate the way we “annihilate” whatever is irrelevant for us.’ ‘You got here late just to demonstrate that?’ ‘To enable you to understand this central point in Sartre’s philosophy, yes. Call it an exercise.’
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‘Simone de Beauvoir attempted to apply existentialism to feminism. Sartre had already said that man has no basic “nature” to fall back on. We create ourselves.’ ‘Really?’ ‘This is also true of the way we perceive the sexes. Simone de Beauvoir denied the existence of a basic “female nature” or “male nature.”
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‘The theater of the absurd often portrays situations that are absolutely trivial. It can therefore also be called a kind of “hyperrealism.” People are portrayed precisely as they are. But if you reproduce on stage exactly what goes on in the bathroom on a perfectly ordinary morning in a perfectly ordinary home, the audience would laugh. Their laughter could be interpreted as a defense mechanism against seeing themselves lampooned on stage.’
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Sartre made an important observation when he said that existential questions cannot be answered once and for all. A philosophical question is by definition something that each generation, each individual even, must ask over and over again.’
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‘In our own time we also have completely new problems to face. The most serious are those of the environment. A central philosophical direction in the twentieth century is therefore ecphilosophy or ecosophy,
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ecophilosophy has questioned the very idea of evolution in its assumption that man is “at the top” – as if we are masters of nature. This way of thinking could prove to be fatal for the whole living planet.’
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‘I’m not saying that all mediums have been fakes. Some have clearly been in good faith. They really have been mediums, but they have only been mediums for their own unconscious.
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‘All true philosophers should keep their eyes open. Even if we have never seen a white crow, we should never stop looking for it. And one day, even a skeptic like me could be obliged to accept a phenomenon I did not believe in before. If I did not keep this possibility open I would be dogmatic, and not a true philosopher.’
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But even so – how could one find a book about oneself in a book about oneself?
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Actually, I’m not in the least surprised.’ ‘You should be surprised that you’re not surprised, at any rate.’
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‘There is indeed no insurance to cover this kind of philosophical insight.
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‘It’s the same with us, Sophie. Spirit can pass through steel doors. No tanks or bombers can crush anything that is of spirit.’
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‘But do you hear the strange whispering of the wind? Look how the aspen leaves are trembling.’ ‘The planet is alive, you know …’
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Everything we can see in the sky is a cosmic fossil from thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can do is predict the past.’
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‘If it’s a clear night, we can see millions, even billions of years back into the history of the universe. So in a way, we are going home.’
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‘You and I also began with the Big Bang, because all substance in the universe is an organic unity. Once in a primeval age all matter was gathered in a clump so enormously massive that a pinhead weighed many billions of tons. This “primeval atom” exploded
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Was there a life after death? This was another question the cat was blissfully unaware
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Was there a life after death? This was another question the cat was blissfully unaware of.
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The earliest Greek philosophers are sometimes called natural philosophers because they were mainly concerned with the natural world and its processes.
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We could say that the natural philosophers took the first step in the direction of scientific reasoning, thereby becoming the precursors of what was to become science.
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Thales is also supposed to have said that ‘all things are full of gods.’ What
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This unshakable faith in human reason is called rationalism. A rationalist is someone who believes that human reason is the primary source of our knowledge of the world.
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‘Everything flows,’ said Heraclitus. Everything is in constant flux and movement, nothing is abiding. Therefore we ‘cannot step twice into the same river.’
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The word ‘a-tom’ means ‘un-cuttable.’ For Democritus it was all-important to establish that the constituent parts that everything else was composed of could not be divided indefinitely into smaller parts.
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Democritus’s atom theory marked the end of Greek natural philosophy for the time being. He agreed with Heraclitus that everything in nature ‘flowed,’ since forms come and go. But behind everything that flowed there were some eternal and immutable things that did not flow. Democritus called them atoms.
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Before the development of modern medicine, the most widely accepted view was that sickness was due to supernatural causes. The word ‘influenza’ actually means a malign influence from the stars.
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The word ‘sophist’ means a wise and informed person.
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The Sophists chose to concern themselves with man and his place in society.
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who Socrates ‘really’ was is relatively unimportant. It is Plato’s portrait of Socrates that has inspired thinkers in the Western world for nearly 2,500 years.
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Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to ‘give birth’ to the correct insight, since real understanding must come from within.
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I am referring to all the schoolmasters and self-opinionated know-it-alls who are satisfied with what little they know, or who boast of knowing a whole lot about subjects they haven’t the faintest notion of. You have probably come across a few of these sophists in your young life. A real philosopher, Sophie, is a completely different kettle of fish – the direct opposite, in fact. A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world.
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When we do wrong it is because we don’t know any better. That is why it is so important to go on learning
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The birds were chirping so energetically that Sophie could hardly keep from laughing. The morning dew twinkled in the grass like drops of crystal. Once again she was struck by the incredible wonder of the world.
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Plato set up his own school of philosophy in a grove not far from Athens, named after the legendary Greek hero Academus. The school was therefore known as the Academy.
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Briefly, we can establish that Plato was concerned with the relationship between what is eternal and immutable, on the one hand, and what ‘flows,’ on the other.
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we can only have inexact conceptions of things we perceive with our senses. But we can have true knowledge of things we understand with our reason.
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Nothing in the sensory world is, there are only things that come to be and pass away.
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This world of ideas cannot be perceived by the senses, but the ideas (or forms) are eternal and immutable.
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Like every aspect of Plato’s philosophy, his political philosophy is characterized by rationalism.
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Plato’s ideal state is not unlike the old Hindu caste system, in which each and every person has his or her particular function for the good of the whole.
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he believed women could govern just as effectively as men for the simple reason that the rulers govern by virtue of their reason.
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In Plato’s ideal state, rulers and warriors are not allowed family life or private property.
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(Plato was the first philosopher to advocate state-organized nursery schools and full-time education.)
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he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
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Aristotle, on the other hand, was preoccupied with just these changes – or with what we nowadays describe as natural processes.
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the ‘idea’ horse was simply a concept that we humans had formed after seeing a certain number of horses. The ‘idea’ or ‘form’ horse thus had no existence of its own. To Aristotle, the ‘idea’ or the ‘form’ horse was made up of the horse’s characteristics – which define what we today call the horse species.
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to Aristotle the ‘forms’ were in the things, because they were the particular characteristics of these things.
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The highest degree of reality, in Plato’s theory, was that which we think with our reason. It was equally apparent to Aristotle that the highest degree of reality is that which we perceive with our senses. Plato thought that all the things we see in the natural world were purely reflections of things that existed in the higher reality of the world of ideas – and thereby in the human soul. Aristotle thought the opposite: things that are in the human soul were purely reflections of natural objects. So nature is the real world.
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We have no innate ideas, as Plato held, but we have the innate faculty of organizing all sensory impressions into categories and classes.
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Similarly Aristotle believed that everything in nature has the potentiality of realizing, or achieving, a specific ‘form.’
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The ‘material cause’ is that the moisture (the clouds) was there at the precise moment when the air cooled. The ‘efficient cause’ is that the moisture cools, and the ‘formal cause’ is that the ‘form,’ or nature of the water, is to fall to the earth. But if you stopped there, Aristotle would add that it rains because plants and animals need rainwater in order to grow. This he called the ‘final cause.’ Aristotle assigns the raindrops a life-task, or ‘purpose.’
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it can naturally be claimed that there is water in the rivers because animals and humans need water to live. But now we are talking about God’s purpose. The raindrops and the waters of the river have no interest in our welfare.
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can quickly develop into mob
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This period, which lasted for about 300 years, is known as Hellenism. The term Hellenism refers to both the period of time and the Greek-dominated culture that prevailed
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This period, which lasted for about 300 years, is known as Hellenism. The term Hellenism refers to both the period of time and the Greek-dominated culture that prevailed in the three Hellenistic kingdoms of Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt.
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Hellenistic philosophy continued to work with the problems raised by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Common to them all was their desire to discover how mankind should best live and die. They were concerned with ethics. In the new civilization, this became the central philosophical project. The main emphasis was on finding out what true happiness was and how it could be achieved.
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The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True happiness lies in not being dependent on such random and fleeting things. And because happiness does not consist in benefits of this kind, it is within everyone’s reach. Moreover, having once been attained, it can never be lost.
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The Cynics were instrumental in the development of the Stoic school of philosophy, which grew up in Athens around 300 B.C.
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the Stoics believed that everyone was a part of the same common sense – or ‘logos.’ They thought that each person was like a world in miniature, or ‘microcosmos,’ which is a reflection of the ‘macrocosmos.’
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the Stoics erased the difference between the individual and the universe, they also denied any conflict between ‘spirit’ and ‘matter.’ There is only one nature, they averred. This kind of idea is called monism
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Cicero (106–43 B.C.). It was he who formed the very concept of ‘humanism’ – that is, a view of life that has the individual as its central focus.
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Even today we use the term ‘stoic calm’ about someone who does not let his feelings take over.
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‘Death does not concern us,’ Epicurus said quite simply, ‘because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.’
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The word ‘epicurean’ is used in a negative sense nowadays to describe someone who lives only for pleasure.
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Swami Vivekenanda, an Indian who was instrumental in bringing Hinduism to the west, once said, ‘Just as certain world religions say that people who do not believe in a personal God outside themselves are atheists, we say that a person who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the splendor of one’s own soul is what we call atheism.’
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cul-de-sac
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The ancient Indians worshipped the celestial god Dyaus, which in Sanskrit means the sky, day, heaven/Heaven. In Greek this god is called Zeus, in Latin, Jupiter (actually iov-pater, or ‘Father Heaven’), and in Old Norse, Tyr. So the names Dyaus, Zeus, lov, and Tyr are dialectal variants of the same word.
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Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.
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In a.d. 330 Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople, the city he had founded at the approach to the Black Sea. Many people considered the new city the “second Rome.” In 395 the Roman Empire was divided in two – a Western Empire with Rome as its center, and an Eastern Empire with the new city of Constantinople as its capital. Rome was plundered by barbarians in 410, and in 476 the whole of the Western Empire was destroyed. The Eastern Empire continued to exist as a state right up until 1453 when the Turks conquered Constantinople.’ ‘And its name got changed to Istanbul?’ ‘That’s right! Istanbul is its latest name. Another date we should notice is 529. That was the year when the church closed Plato’s Academy in Athens.
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The year 529 thus became a symbol of the way the Christian Church put the lid on Greek philosophy.
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at the end of the Middle Ages, all three streams came together in Northern Italy. The Arabic influence came from the Arabs in Spain, the Greek influence from Greece and the Byzantine Empire. And now we see the beginning of the Renaissance, the “rebirth” of antique culture.
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there is no dramatic break with Greek philosophy the minute we enter the Christian Middle Ages. Much of Greek philosophy was carried over to the new age through Fathers of the Church like St. Augustine.’
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‘The greatest and most significant philosopher of this period was St. Thomas Aquinas, who lived from 1225 to 1274.
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We can hear the thunder even if we are blind, and we can see the lightning even if we are deaf. It’s best if we can both see and hear, of course. But there is no contradiction between what we see and what we hear. On the contrary – the two impressions reinforce each other.’
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well-to-do
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‘Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other – and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.’
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‘An incunabulum?’ ‘Actually, it means “cradle.” The word is used about books printed in the cradle days of printing. That is, before 1500.’
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the Renaissance resulted in a new view of mankind. The humanism of the Renaissance brought a new belief in man and his worth, in striking contrast to the biased medieval emphasis on the sinful nature of man.
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Many held the view that God was also present in his creation. If he is indeed infinite, he must be present in everything. This idea is called pantheism.
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An exaggerated belief in the importance of reason had been valid all through the Middle Ages. Now it was said that every investigation of natural phenomena must be based on observation, experience, and experiment. We call this the empirical method.’
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‘It’s not a silly question if you can’t answer it.
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All the planets travel in elliptical orbits round the sun as the result of two unequal movements: first, the rectilinear movement they had when the solar system was formed, and second, the movement toward the sun due to gravitation.’
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Sophie pretended to be asleep even though she knew her mother wouldn’t believe it. She knew her mother knew that Sophie knew her mother wouldn’t believe it either. Nevertheless her mother pretended to believe that Sophie was asleep. She sat on the edge of Sophie’s bed and stroked her hair.
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One of the Baroque period’s favorite sayings was the Latin expression “carpe diem” – “seize the day.” Another Latin expression that was widely quoted was “memento mori,” which means “Remember that you must die.”
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in Macbeth, he says: Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.’
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‘Descartes maintains that we cannot accept anything as being true unless we can clearly and distinctly perceive it. To achieve this can require the breaking down of a compound problem into as many single factors as possible.
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one thing had to be true, and that was that he doubted. When he doubted, he had to be thinking, and because he was thinking, it had to be certain that he was a thinking being. Or, as he himself expressed it: Cogito, ergo sum.’
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Descartes now maintains that there are two different forms of reality – or two “substances.” One substance is thought, or the “mind,” the other is extension, or matter.
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We say that Descartes is a dualist, which means that he effects a sharp division between the reality of thought and extended reality.
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The bodily processes do not have the same freedom, they obey their own laws. But what we think with our reason does not happen in the body – it happens in the mind, which is completely independent of extended reality.
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Spinoza does not have the dualistic view of reality that Descartes had. We say he is a monist. That is, he reduces nature and the condition of all things to one single substance.’
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Spinoza maintained that all material things and things that happen around us are an expression of God or nature. So it follows that all thoughts that we think are also God’s or nature’s thoughts. For everything is One. There is only one God, one nature, or one Substance.’
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You may have the right to move your thumb any way you choose. But your thumb can only move according to its nature. It cannot jump off your hand and dance about the room. In the same way you also have your place in the structure of existence, my dear. You are Sophie, but you are also a finger of God’s body.’
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So God – or nature – is the “inner cause” of everything that happens. This means that everything in the material world happens through necessity. Spinoza had a determinist view of the material, or natural, world.’
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‘Obviously the tree with the best conditions for growing.’ ‘According to Spinoza, this tree is free. It has its full freedom to develop its inherent abilities. But if it is an apple tree it will not have the ability to bear pears or plums. The same applies to us humans. We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions, for instance. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.’
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everything is related, even that everything is One. The goal is to comprehend everything that exists in an all-embracing perception. Only then will we achieve true happiness and contentment. This was what Spinoza called seeing everything “sub specie aeternitatis.”’ ‘Which means what?’ ‘To see everything from the perspective of eternity.
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Locke’s claim is that all our thoughts and ideas issue from that which we have taken in through the senses. Before we perceive anything, the mind is a “tabula rasa” – or an empty slate.’ ‘You
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he held that certain ethical principles applied to everyone. In other words, he believed in the idea of a natural right, and that was a rationalistic feature of his thought. An equally rationalistic feature was that Locke believed that it was inherent in human reason to be able to know that God exists.’
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Locke’s view was that to ensure a legal State, the people’s representatives must make the laws and the king or the government must apply them.’
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Hume emphasizes that all the elements we put together in our ideas must at some time have entered the mind in the form of “simple impressions.” A person who has never seen gold will never be able to visualize streets of gold.’
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‘An agnostic is someone who holds that the existence of God or a god can neither be proved nor disproved.
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I wonder if the child is not also the greater philosopher? He comes utterly without preconceived opinions. And that, my dear Sophie, is the philosopher’s most distinguishing virtue. The child perceives the world as it is, without putting more into things than he experiences.’
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When we speak of the “laws of nature” or of “cause and effect,” we are actually speaking of what we expect, rather than what is “reasonable.” The laws of nature are neither reasonable nor unreasonable, they simply are.
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One of the main concerns of philosophy is to warn people against jumping to conclusions.
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‘What about Hilde herself?’ ‘She is an angel, Sophie.’ ‘An angel?’ ‘Hilde is the one this “spirit” turns to.’ ‘Are you saying that Albert Knag tells Hilde about us?’ ‘Or writes about us. For we cannot perceive the matter itself that our reality is made of, that much we have learned. We cannot know whether our external reality is made of sound waves or of paper and writing. According to Berkeley, all we can know is that we are spirit.’ ‘And Hilde is an angel …’ ‘Hilde is an angel, yes. Let that be the last word. Happy birthday, Hilde!’ Suddenly the room was filled with a bluish light.
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Hildegard of Bingen was a preacher, a writer, a doctor, a botanist, and a biologist. She was ‘perhaps an example of the fact that women were often more practical, more scientific even, in the Middle Ages.’
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‘An Archimedian point?’ ‘Archimedes was a Greek scientist who said “Give me a firm point on which to stand and I will move the earth.” That’s the kind of point we must find to move ourselves out of the major’s inner universe.’
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‘I have to go to school. We are having a class get-together and then we get our grades.’ ‘Drop it. If we are only fictive, it’s pure imagination that candy and soda have any taste.’ ‘But my grades …’ ‘Sophie, either you are living in a wondrous universe on a tiny planet in one of many hundred billion galaxies – or else you are the result of a few electromagnetic impulses in the major’s mind. And you are talking about grades! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!’
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Now the Enlightenment philosophers saw it as their duty to lay a foundation for morals, religion, and ethics in accordance with man’s immutable reason. This led to the enlightenment movement.’
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Rousseau proposed the catchphrase, “We should return to nature.” For nature is good, and man is “by nature” good; it is civilization which ruins him.
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‘By Deism we mean a belief that God created the world ages and ages ago, but has not revealed himself to the world since. Thus God is reduced to the “Supreme Being” who only reveals himself to mankind through nature and natural laws, never in any “supernatural” way. We find a similar “philosophical God” in the writings of Aristotle. For him, God was the “formal cause” or “first mover.”’
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‘Kant made an important distinction between “the thing in itself” and “the thing for me.” We can never have certain knowledge of things “in themselves.” We can only know how things “appear” to us.
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But when, for example, we ask whether the universe is finite or infinite, we are asking about a totality of which we ourselves are a tiny part. We can therefore never completely know this totality.’
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Kant said something to that effect. We cannot expect to understand what we are. Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.’
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Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.’ ‘So when I do something, I must make sure I want everybody else to do the same if they are in the same situation.’
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Only when we follow our “practical reason” – which enables us to make moral choices – do we exercise our free will, because when we conform to moral law, it is we who make the law we are conforming to.’ ‘Yes, that’s true in a way. It is me, or something in me, which tells me not to be mean to others.’ ‘So when you choose not to be mean – even if it is against your own interests – you are then acting freely.’ ‘You’re not especially free or independent if you just do whatever you want, in any case.’
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If he lets the sky go dark or elephants fly, I shall only smile. But seven plus five is twelve. That’s a fact that survives all his comic-strip effects. Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales.’
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The theme of unrequited love was introduced as early as 1774 by Goethe in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
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Novalis could therefore say “the path of mystery leads inwards.” He was saying that man bears the whole universe within himself and comes closest to the mystery of the world by stepping inside himself.’
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Fichte said that nature stems from a higher, unconscious imagination. Schelling said explicitly that the world is “in God.” God is aware of some of it, he believed, but there are other aspects of nature which represent the unknown in God. For God also has a dark side.’
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The fairy tale gave the writer free rein to exploit his “universe-creating imagination.” And even the creative act was not always completely conscious. The writer could experience that his story was being written by some innate force.
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This form of disillusion is called “romantic irony.” Henrik Ibsen, for example, lets one of the characters in Peer Gynt say: “One cannot die in the middle of Act Five.”’
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‘The statement is so paradoxical that we can certainly emphasize it with a new section.’ ‘What did you mean by that?’ ‘Oh, nothing, Sophie.
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Hegel said that “truth is subjective,” thus rejecting the existence of any “truth” above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge, he said.’
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History is in a constant state of change, so how can it be a fixed point?’ ‘A river is also in a constant state of change. That doesn’t mean you can’t talk about it. But you cannot say at which place in the valley the river is the “truest” river.’ ‘No, because it’s just as much river all the way through.’ ‘So to Hegel, history was like a running river.
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You can therefore never claim that any particular thought is correct for ever and ever. But the thought can be correct from where you stand.’
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‘Hegel pointed out that as regards philosophical reflection, also, reason is dynamic; it’s a process, in fact. And the “truth” is this same process, since there are no criteria beyond the historical process itself that can determine what is the most true or the most reasonable.’
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‘Hegel claimed that the “world spirit” is developing toward an ever-expanding knowledge of itself.
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Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process.’
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‘He also called these three stages of knowledge thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. You could, for example, say that Descartes’s rationalism was a thesis – which was contradicted by Hume’s empirical antithesis. But the contradiction, or the tension between two modes of thought, was resolved in Kant’s synthesis. Kant agreed with the rationalists in some things and with the empiricists in others.
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There’s no need to have an opinion on something everyone agrees on. And the more grossly they expressed themselves about women’s inferiority, the stronger became the negation.’
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You can’t reflect on your existence without immediately realizing that you won’t always exist. The tension between “being” and “nothing” becomes resolved in the concept of “becoming.” Because if something is in the process of becoming, it both is and is not.’
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‘Finally the girl’s mother gets absolutely maddened by her daughter’s overobedience, and shouts: Stop being such a goodygoody! And the girl answers: Okay, Mom.’ ‘I would have slapped her.’ ‘Perhaps. But what would you have done if the girl had answered instead: But I want to be a goody-goody?’ ‘That would have been an odd answer. Maybe I would have slapped her anyway.’ ‘In other words, the situation was deadlocked. The dialectic tension had come to a point where something had to happen.’
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‘In the same way that a baby is born into a language, it is also born into its historical background. And nobody has a “free” relationship to that kind of background. He who does not find his place within the state is therefore an unhistorical person. This
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an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can’t ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.’
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Sophie felt she might spend a lifetime staring at this water and to her dying day it would still remain an unfathomable mystery.
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To Kierkegaard, Christianity was both so overwhelming and so irrational that it had to be an either/or. It was not good being “rather” or “to some extent” religious. Because either Jesus rose on Easter Day – or he did not. And if he really did rise from the dead, if he really died for our sake – then this is so overwhelming that it must permeate our entire life.’
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To Kierkegaard, religion and knowledge were like fire and water. It was not enough to believe that Christianity is “true.” Having a Christian faith meant following a Christian way of life.’
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‘According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual’s life. It is important to find “the truth for me.”
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‘You can never know whether a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don’t think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.’
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‘Kierkegaard believed that there were three different forms of life. He himself used the term stages. He calls them the aesthetic stage, the ethical
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‘Kierkegaard believed that there were three different forms of life. He himself used the term stages. He calls them the aesthetic stage, the ethical stage, and the religious stage.
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‘He who lives at the aesthetic stage lives for the moment and grasps every opportunity of enjoyment. Good is whatever is beautiful, satisfying, or pleasant. This person lives wholly in the world of the senses, and is a slave to his own desires and moods. Everything that is boring is bad.’
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‘A person who lives at the aesthetic stage can easily experience angst, or a sense of dread, and a feeling of emptiness. If this happens, there is also hope. According to Kierkegaard, angst is almost positive. It is an expression of the fact that the individual is in an “existential situation,” and can now elect to make the great leap to a higher stage.
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‘And so perhaps you will begin to live at the ethical stage. This is characterized by seriousness and consistency of moral choices. This approach is not unlike Kant’s ethics of duty. You try to live by the law of morals. Kierkegaard, like Kant, drew attention first and foremost to human temperament. The important thing is not what you may think is precisely right or wrong. What matters is that you choose to have an opinion at all on what is right or wrong.
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Kierkegaard never claimed that the ethical stage was satisfactory. Even a dutiful person will eventually get tired of always being dedicated and meticulous. Lots of people experience that sort of fatigue reaction late in life. Some relapse into the reflective life of their aesthetic stage.
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‘But others make a new leap to the religious stage. They take the “jump into the abyss” of Faith’s “seventy thousand fathoms.” They choose faith in preference to aesthetic pleasure and reason’s call of duty. And although it can be “terrible to jump into the open arms of the living God,” as Kierkegaard put it, it is the only path to redemption.’
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Before the evening was over they had agreed on everything, from paper lanterns to a philosophical quiz with a prize. The prize should preferably be a book about philosophy for young people. If there was such a thing! Sophie was not at all sure.
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‘The red cock has crowed!’
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Instead of great speculative systems, we had what we call an existential philosophy or a philosophy of action. This was what Marx meant when he observed that until now, “philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”
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‘Hegel called the force that drives history forward world spirit or world reason. This, Marx claimed, is upside down. He wished to show that material changes are the ones that affect history. “Spiritual relations” do not create material change, it is the other way about. Material change creates new spiritual relations. Marx particularly emphasized that it was the economic forces in society that created change and thus drove history forward.’
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It is the interactive effect of society’s basis on its superstructure. If Marx had rejected this interaction, he would have been a mechanical materialist. But because Marx realized that there was an interactive or dialectic relation between bases and superstructure, we say that he is a dialectical materialist.
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“the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.”
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‘Marx believed that in all phases of history there has been a conflict between two dominant classes of society. In antiquity’s slave society, the conflict was between free citizen and slave. In the feudal society of the Middle Ages, it was between feudal lord and serf; later on, between aristocrat and citizen. But in Marx’s own time, in what he called a bourgeois or capitalist society, the conflict was first and foremost between the capitalists and the workers, or the proletariat. So the conflict stood between those who own the means of production and those who do not. And since the “upper classes” do not voluntarily relinquish their power, change can only come about through revolution.’
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The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They
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‘A moral philosopher called John Rawls attempted to say something about it with the following example: Imagine you were a member of a distinguished council whose task it was to make all the laws for a future society.’ ‘I wouldn’t mind at all being on that council.’ ‘They are obliged to consider absolutely every detail, because as soon as they reach an agreement – and everybody has signed the laws – they will all drop dead.’ ‘Oh …’ ‘But they will immediately come to life again in the society they have legislated for. The point is that they have no idea which position they will have in society.’
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- Your Highlight on page 429 | Location 6714-6715 | Added on Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:45:38 AM
And like the little rowboat floating on the surface in the bay at Lillesand, she herself was just a nutshell on the surface of life.
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One might just as well say that she herself was nothing but a conglomeration of protein compounds that had suddenly come to life one day in a ‘hot little pool.’ But she was more than that. She was Hilde Møller Knag.
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Sartre himself spent a lot of time in cafés. He met his life-long companion Simone de Beauvoir in a café. She was also an existential philosopher.’
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‘Sartre said that “existentialism is humanism.” By that he meant that the existentialists start from nothing but humanity itself.
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‘The key word in Sartre’s philosophy, as in Kierkegaard’s, is “existence.” But existence did not mean the same as being alive. Plants and animals are also alive, they exist, but they do not have to think about what it implies. Man is the only living creature that is conscious of its own existence. Sartre said that a material thing is simply “in itself,” but mankind is “for itself.” The being of man is therefore not the same as the being of things.’
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When people realize they are alive and will one day die – and there is no meaning to cling to – they experience angst, said Sartre. You may recall that angst, a sense of dread, was also characteristic of Kierkegaard’s description of a person in an existential situation.’
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‘Sartre says that man feels alien in a world without meaning. When he describes man’s “alienation,” he is echoing the central ideas of Hegel and Marx. Man’s feeling of alienation in the world creates a sense of despair, boredom, nausea, and absurdity.’
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Those who thus slip into the anonymous masses will never be other than members of the impersonal flock, having fled from themselves into self-deception.
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Sartre believed that life must have meaning. It is an imperative. But it is we ourselves who must create this meaning in our own lives. To exist is to create your own life.’
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‘Tell me first of all what you saw when you came in here.’ ‘The first thing I saw was that you weren’t here.’ ‘Isn’t it strange that the first thing you noticed was something that was absent?’ ‘Maybe, but it was you I was supposed to meet.’ ‘Sartre uses just such a café visit to demonstrate the way we “annihilate” whatever is irrelevant for us.’ ‘You got here late just to demonstrate that?’ ‘To enable you to understand this central point in Sartre’s philosophy, yes. Call it an exercise.’
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‘Simone de Beauvoir attempted to apply existentialism to feminism. Sartre had already said that man has no basic “nature” to fall back on. We create ourselves.’ ‘Really?’ ‘This is also true of the way we perceive the sexes. Simone de Beauvoir denied the existence of a basic “female nature” or “male nature.”
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‘The theater of the absurd often portrays situations that are absolutely trivial. It can therefore also be called a kind of “hyperrealism.” People are portrayed precisely as they are. But if you reproduce on stage exactly what goes on in the bathroom on a perfectly ordinary morning in a perfectly ordinary home, the audience would laugh. Their laughter could be interpreted as a defense mechanism against seeing themselves lampooned on stage.’
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Sartre made an important observation when he said that existential questions cannot be answered once and for all. A philosophical question is by definition something that each generation, each individual even, must ask over and over again.’
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‘In our own time we also have completely new problems to face. The most serious are those of the environment. A central philosophical direction in the twentieth century is therefore ecphilosophy or ecosophy,
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ecophilosophy has questioned the very idea of evolution in its assumption that man is “at the top” – as if we are masters of nature. This way of thinking could prove to be fatal for the whole living planet.’
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‘I’m not saying that all mediums have been fakes. Some have clearly been in good faith. They really have been mediums, but they have only been mediums for their own unconscious.
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‘All true philosophers should keep their eyes open. Even if we have never seen a white crow, we should never stop looking for it. And one day, even a skeptic like me could be obliged to accept a phenomenon I did not believe in before. If I did not keep this possibility open I would be dogmatic, and not a true philosopher.’
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But even so – how could one find a book about oneself in a book about oneself?
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Actually, I’m not in the least surprised.’ ‘You should be surprised that you’re not surprised, at any rate.’
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‘There is indeed no insurance to cover this kind of philosophical insight.
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‘It’s the same with us, Sophie. Spirit can pass through steel doors. No tanks or bombers can crush anything that is of spirit.’
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‘But do you hear the strange whispering of the wind? Look how the aspen leaves are trembling.’ ‘The planet is alive, you know …’
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Everything we can see in the sky is a cosmic fossil from thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can do is predict the past.’
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‘If it’s a clear night, we can see millions, even billions of years back into the history of the universe. So in a way, we are going home.’
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‘You and I also began with the Big Bang, because all substance in the universe is an organic unity. Once in a primeval age all matter was gathered in a clump so enormously massive that a pinhead weighed many billions of tons. This “primeval atom” exploded
O Círculo (Dave Eggers)
O Círculo (Dave Eggers)
- Your Highlight on Location 2030-2035 | Added on Sunday, March 22, 2020 4:31:05 PM
“A questão não é que eu não seja social. Sou social o bastante. Mas as ferramentas que vocês inventam na verdade fabricam de modo artificial necessidades sociais excessivas. Ninguém precisa do nível de contato que vocês fornecem. Ele não serve para aprimorar nada. Ele não nutre ninguém. É que nem esses salgadinhos. Sabe como criam essas comidas? Eles determinam de forma científica exatamente quanto sal e quanta gordura precisam incluir para fazer a pessoa continuar comendo. Você não tem fome, não precisa comer, aquilo não traz nada para você, mas você continua devorando aquelas calorias vazias. É isso que vocês estão empurrando. A mesma coisa. Infinitas calorias vazias, mas o equivalente na forma sociodigital. E vocês calibram as doses para que o negócio fique igualmente viciante.”
- Your Highlight on Location 2030-2035 | Added on Sunday, March 22, 2020 4:31:05 PM
“A questão não é que eu não seja social. Sou social o bastante. Mas as ferramentas que vocês inventam na verdade fabricam de modo artificial necessidades sociais excessivas. Ninguém precisa do nível de contato que vocês fornecem. Ele não serve para aprimorar nada. Ele não nutre ninguém. É que nem esses salgadinhos. Sabe como criam essas comidas? Eles determinam de forma científica exatamente quanto sal e quanta gordura precisam incluir para fazer a pessoa continuar comendo. Você não tem fome, não precisa comer, aquilo não traz nada para você, mas você continua devorando aquelas calorias vazias. É isso que vocês estão empurrando. A mesma coisa. Infinitas calorias vazias, mas o equivalente na forma sociodigital. E vocês calibram as doses para que o negócio fique igualmente viciante.”
A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 81-82 | Added on Monday, March 16, 2020 10:42:36 PM
(Me sentia muito calma e muito vazia, do jeito que o olho de um tornado deve se sentir, movendo-se pacatamente em meio ao turbilhão que o rodeia.)
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- Your Highlight on Location 462-464 | Added on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 10:09:29 PM
Depois que Doreen foi embora, fiquei me perguntando por que eu não conseguia mais cumprir as minhas obrigações até o fim. Isso me deixou triste e cansada. Então me perguntei por que também não conseguia deixar de cumprir minhas obrigações até o fim, do jeito que Doreen fazia, e isso me deixou mais triste e cansada ainda.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1103-1103 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 2:52:52 PM
o problema é que eu sempre fora inadequada, só não tinha pensado nisso ainda.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1108-1109 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 2:54:03 PM
Da ponta de cada galho, como um enorme figo púrpura, um futuro maravilhoso acenava e cintilava. Um desses figos era um lar feliz com marido e filhos, outro era uma poeta famosa, outro, uma professora brilhante,
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outro era uma campeã olímpica de remo, e acima desses figos havia muitos outros que eu não conseguia enxergar. Me vi sentada embaixo da árvore, morrendo de fome, simplesmente porque não conseguia decidir com qual figo eu ficaria. Eu queria todos eles, mas escolher um significava perder todo o resto, e enquanto eu ficava ali sentada, incapaz de tomar uma decisão, os figos começaram a encolher e ficar pretos e, um por um, desabaram no chão aos meus pés.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1200-1202 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:00:09 PM
Essa é uma das razões por que nunca quis me casar. A última coisa que eu queria da vida era “segurança infinita” ou ser o “lugar de onde a flecha parte”. Eu queria mudança e agitação, queria ser uma flecha avançando em todas as direções, como as luzes coloridas de um rojão de Quatro de Julho.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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apesar das rosas e dos beijos e dos jantares que o homem despejava sobre a mulher antes do casamento, o que ele secretamente desejava depois da cerimônia nupcial é que ela se estendesse sob seus pés como o tapetinho de cozinha
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- Your Highlight on Location 1228-1229 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:03:43 PM
me ocorreu que talvez fosse verdade aquela história de que casar e ter filhos era como passar por uma lavagem cerebral, e que depois você ficava inerte feito um escravo num pequeno estado totalitário.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1355-1356 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:21:02 PM
Se ser neurótico é querer ao mesmo tempo duas coisas mutuamente excludentes, então eu sou uma baita de uma neurótica. Vou ficar correndo de uma coisa mutuamente excludente pra outra pelo resto da minha vida.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1401-1402 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 10:36:20 PM
A ideia de que eu poderia acabar morta desabrochou com indiferença em minha cabeça, como uma árvore ou uma flor.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1637-1638 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 10:54:29 PM
Eu não entendia por que as pessoas me olhavam. Várias delas pareciam bem mais esquisitas do que eu.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1762-1762 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 1:12:01 PM
A inércia infiltrava-se nos membros de Elaine feito melaço.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1806-1806 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 1:32:58 PM
o começo com letra minúscula significava que nada jamais começava para valer, mas apenas fluía do que acontecera antes.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 2153-2155 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 1:51:54 PM
Mas quando chegou a hora, a pele do meu pulso pareceu tão branca e indefesa que não consegui fazer nada. Era como se o que eu quisesse matar não estivesse naquela pele ou no leve pulsar azul sob o meu dedão, mas em outro lugar mais profundo e secreto, bem mais difícil de alcançar.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 2290-2291 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 2:00:13 PM
Fiquei me perguntando em que ponto do espaço aquele azul besta e ilusório do céu ficava preto.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 2656-2657 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 3:30:00 PM
Quis dizer a ela que seria bom ter algo de errado no meu corpo, que antes ter o corpo doente do que a cabeça, mas a ideia me pareceu tão complicada e tediosa que não falei nada.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 2692-2693 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 4:54:10 PM
onde quer que eu estivesse — fosse o convés de um navio, um café parisiense ou Bangcoc —, estaria sempre sob a mesma redoma de vidro, sendo lentamente cozida em meu próprio ar viciado.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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Para a pessoa dentro da redoma de vidro, vazia e imóvel como um bebê morto, o mundo inteiro é um sonho ruim.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 3436-3437 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:04:06 PM
O que havia de tão diferente entre nós, no Belsize, e as garotas jogando bridge, fofocando e estudando na universidade para onde eu estava prestes a retornar? Aquelas garotas também viviam dentro de um tipo de redoma.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 3485-3486 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:06:49 PM
Como eu poderia saber se um dia — na faculdade, na Europa, em algum lugar, em qualquer lugar — a redoma de vidro não desceria novamente sobre mim, com suas distorções sufocantes?
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- Your Highlight on Location 312-312 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:17:53 PM
O silêncio me deprimia. Não era o silêncio do silêncio. Era o meu próprio silêncio.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 324-325 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:18:44 PM
Pensei em me enfiar nos lençóis e tentar dormir, mas aquilo me atraía tanto quanto enfiar uma carta suja e rabiscada num envelope novo e limpo.
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(Me sentia muito calma e muito vazia, do jeito que o olho de um tornado deve se sentir, movendo-se pacatamente em meio ao turbilhão que o rodeia.)
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 462-464 | Added on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 10:09:29 PM
Depois que Doreen foi embora, fiquei me perguntando por que eu não conseguia mais cumprir as minhas obrigações até o fim. Isso me deixou triste e cansada. Então me perguntei por que também não conseguia deixar de cumprir minhas obrigações até o fim, do jeito que Doreen fazia, e isso me deixou mais triste e cansada ainda.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1103-1103 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 2:52:52 PM
o problema é que eu sempre fora inadequada, só não tinha pensado nisso ainda.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1108-1109 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 2:54:03 PM
Da ponta de cada galho, como um enorme figo púrpura, um futuro maravilhoso acenava e cintilava. Um desses figos era um lar feliz com marido e filhos, outro era uma poeta famosa, outro, uma professora brilhante,
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1111-1114 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 2:54:13 PM
outro era uma campeã olímpica de remo, e acima desses figos havia muitos outros que eu não conseguia enxergar. Me vi sentada embaixo da árvore, morrendo de fome, simplesmente porque não conseguia decidir com qual figo eu ficaria. Eu queria todos eles, mas escolher um significava perder todo o resto, e enquanto eu ficava ali sentada, incapaz de tomar uma decisão, os figos começaram a encolher e ficar pretos e, um por um, desabaram no chão aos meus pés.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1200-1202 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:00:09 PM
Essa é uma das razões por que nunca quis me casar. A última coisa que eu queria da vida era “segurança infinita” ou ser o “lugar de onde a flecha parte”. Eu queria mudança e agitação, queria ser uma flecha avançando em todas as direções, como as luzes coloridas de um rojão de Quatro de Julho.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1222-1224 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:03:11 PM
apesar das rosas e dos beijos e dos jantares que o homem despejava sobre a mulher antes do casamento, o que ele secretamente desejava depois da cerimônia nupcial é que ela se estendesse sob seus pés como o tapetinho de cozinha
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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me ocorreu que talvez fosse verdade aquela história de que casar e ter filhos era como passar por uma lavagem cerebral, e que depois você ficava inerte feito um escravo num pequeno estado totalitário.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1355-1356 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:21:02 PM
Se ser neurótico é querer ao mesmo tempo duas coisas mutuamente excludentes, então eu sou uma baita de uma neurótica. Vou ficar correndo de uma coisa mutuamente excludente pra outra pelo resto da minha vida.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1401-1402 | Added on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 10:36:20 PM
A ideia de que eu poderia acabar morta desabrochou com indiferença em minha cabeça, como uma árvore ou uma flor.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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Eu não entendia por que as pessoas me olhavam. Várias delas pareciam bem mais esquisitas do que eu.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 1762-1762 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 1:12:01 PM
A inércia infiltrava-se nos membros de Elaine feito melaço.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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o começo com letra minúscula significava que nada jamais começava para valer, mas apenas fluía do que acontecera antes.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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Mas quando chegou a hora, a pele do meu pulso pareceu tão branca e indefesa que não consegui fazer nada. Era como se o que eu quisesse matar não estivesse naquela pele ou no leve pulsar azul sob o meu dedão, mas em outro lugar mais profundo e secreto, bem mais difícil de alcançar.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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Fiquei me perguntando em que ponto do espaço aquele azul besta e ilusório do céu ficava preto.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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Quis dizer a ela que seria bom ter algo de errado no meu corpo, que antes ter o corpo doente do que a cabeça, mas a ideia me pareceu tão complicada e tediosa que não falei nada.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
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onde quer que eu estivesse — fosse o convés de um navio, um café parisiense ou Bangcoc —, estaria sempre sob a mesma redoma de vidro, sendo lentamente cozida em meu próprio ar viciado.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 3425-3426 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:03:16 PM
Para a pessoa dentro da redoma de vidro, vazia e imóvel como um bebê morto, o mundo inteiro é um sonho ruim.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 3436-3437 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:04:06 PM
O que havia de tão diferente entre nós, no Belsize, e as garotas jogando bridge, fofocando e estudando na universidade para onde eu estava prestes a retornar? Aquelas garotas também viviam dentro de um tipo de redoma.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 3485-3486 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:06:49 PM
Como eu poderia saber se um dia — na faculdade, na Europa, em algum lugar, em qualquer lugar — a redoma de vidro não desceria novamente sobre mim, com suas distorções sufocantes?
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 312-312 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:17:53 PM
O silêncio me deprimia. Não era o silêncio do silêncio. Era o meu próprio silêncio.
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A redoma de vidro (Sylvia Plath)
- Your Highlight on Location 324-325 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:18:44 PM
Pensei em me enfiar nos lençóis e tentar dormir, mas aquilo me atraía tanto quanto enfiar uma carta suja e rabiscada num envelope novo e limpo.
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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) (Tammy Strobel)
You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) (Tammy Strobel)
- Your Highlight on Location 183-183 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:54:39 PM
materialism distracts us from two main facets in life that actually make us happy — strong relationships
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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) (Tammy Strobel)
- Your Highlight on Location 183-184 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:54:48 PM
materialism distracts us from two main facets in life that actually make us happy — strong relationships and doing work you love.
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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) (Tammy Strobel)
- Your Highlight on Location 517-518 | Added on Monday, March 16, 2020 9:58:55 AM
Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff,
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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) (Tammy Strobel)
- Your Highlight on Location 526-529 | Added on Monday, March 16, 2020 10:01:37 AM
Robert Kennedy explained the problem beautifully. He said GDP doesn’t register “the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”
- Your Highlight on Location 183-183 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:54:39 PM
materialism distracts us from two main facets in life that actually make us happy — strong relationships
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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) (Tammy Strobel)
- Your Highlight on Location 183-184 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:54:48 PM
materialism distracts us from two main facets in life that actually make us happy — strong relationships and doing work you love.
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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) (Tammy Strobel)
- Your Highlight on Location 517-518 | Added on Monday, March 16, 2020 9:58:55 AM
Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff,
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You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap) (Tammy Strobel)
- Your Highlight on Location 526-529 | Added on Monday, March 16, 2020 10:01:37 AM
Robert Kennedy explained the problem beautifully. He said GDP doesn’t register “the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”
Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 434-435 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 9:57:21 AM
Não acho certo ter que fazer um teste pra comer. Será que o Burt ia gostar de ter que passar num teste sempre que quisesse comer. Acho que Algernon e eu seremos amigos.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 499-500 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:07:11 AM
Eu disse que todos os meus amigos são pessoas inteligentes e eles são bons. Eles gostam de mim e nunca fizeram algo que não fosse bom. Então alguma coisa entrou no olho dela e ela teve de correr para o banheiro.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 538-539 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:11:41 AM
Você está se desenvolvendo rápido, Charlie. Isso fez eu me sentir bem. Depois da lição, desci e brinquei com Algernon. Nós não competimos mais.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 573-575 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:13:41 AM
Eu nunca soube antes que Joe e Frank e os outros só gostavam de mim por perto para rir de mim. Agora sei o significado de dizer “dar uma de Charlie Gordon”. Eu me sinto envergonhado.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 592-592 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:15:05 AM
Acho que o garoto com uma expressão assustada no rosto sou eu.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 624-627 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:17:22 AM
– Quanto mais inteligente você se tornar, mais problemas você terá, Charlie. Seu crescimento intelectual vai ultrapassar seu crescimento emocional. E acho que você observará que, ao progredir, haverá muitas coisas sobre as quais você vai querer falar comigo. Eu só quero que se lembre de que este é o lugar para vir quando precisar de ajuda.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 654-657 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:19:35 AM
Então eu ainda não sei o que é Q.I., e todo mundo diz que é algo diferente. O meu está em torno de 100 agora e vai ficar em torno de 150 logo, mas eles ainda vão ter que me preencher com alguma coisa. Eu não queria dizer nada, mas não entendo como, se eles não sabem o que é, ou não sabem onde fica, como eles sabem o quanto disso você tem.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 851-852 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:32:12 AM
Assim que a confusão passar, ele vai se lembrar. Só mais alguns segundos e ele vai saber. Ele quer guardar o que aprendeu, só por um tempinho. Ele quer tanto.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1150-1150 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:48:28 AM
O que é correto? É irônico que toda a minha inteligência não me ajude a resolver um problema assim.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1185-1186 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:50:17 AM
– Charlie, você é incrível. Eu peguei a mão dela e a segurei: – Não, você é. Você toca meus olhos e me faz ver.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1252-1254 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:53:48 AM
É incrível a maneira como assuntos, aparentemente sem ligação, se conectam. Atingi mais um platô e, desde então, as correntes das diferentes disciplinas parecem mais próximas umas das outras, como se saíssem de uma única fonte.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1255-1257 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:53:57 AM
Não encontro mais prazer em discutir ideias em um nível tão elementar. As pessoas se ressentem quando alguém lhes mostra que elas não abordam as complexidades do problema do qual conhecem apenas ondas superficiais.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1271-1273 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:55:30 AM
Todos esses especialistas encontravam desculpas para escapar, com medo de revelar a limitação de seus conhecimentos. Como eles me parecem diferentes agora. E quão tolo fui de algum dia pensar que professores eram gigantes intelectuais. Eles são pessoas, e sentem medo de que o resto do mundo descubra.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1380-1382 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00:40 AM
Estava tudo bem enquanto eles pudessem rir de mim e parecer inteligentes à minha custa, mas agora eles se sentiam inferiores ao imbecil. Comecei a ver que, por meio do meu surpreendente crescimento, eu os fiz encolher e enfatizei suas inadequações. Eu os havia traído, e eles me odiavam por isso.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1399-1401 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:01:54 AM
Essa inteligência tinha gerado uma cisão entre mim e todas as pessoas que conhecia e amava, me arrancando da padaria. Agora, estou mais sozinho que nunca. Eu me pergunto o que aconteceria se colocassem Algernon de volta na gaiola grande com alguns dos outros ratos. Eles se voltariam contra ele?
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1438-1438 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:04:00 AM
Sou como um animal que foi trancado do lado de fora de sua jaula boa e segura.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1609-1611 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:13:51 AM
Eu queria que você fosse inteligente. Eu queria ajudar você e compartilhar com você, e agora você me fechou do lado de fora de sua vida. Enquanto escutava o que ela dizia, a enormidade daquilo me ocorreu. Eu estava tão absorvido em mim mesmo e no que acontecia comigo que nunca pensara sobre o que acontecia com ela.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1625-1627 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 3:46:37 PM
Ah, você ficou insuportável! Como você sabe o que sinto? Você toma liberdades com a mente alheia. Não dá pra você saber como me sinto, o que sinto ou por que sinto.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1958-1959 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 4:06:08 PM
respeito sua dedicação, talvez até mais porque ele é simplesmente um homem comum tentando fazer o trabalho de um grande homem, enquanto todos os grandes homens estão ocupados fazendo bombas.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 2728-2729 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 9:34:28 AM
Não é amor – mas ela é importante para mim. Eu me pego tentando ouvir seus passos pelo corredor sempre que ela está fora de casa.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 2839-2841 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 9:51:01 AM
descobrir quem realmente sou – o significado de toda a minha existência – envolve conhecer as possibilidades do meu futuro e também do meu passado, aonde estou indo tanto quanto aonde já fui.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 2842-2843 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 9:51:13 AM
o caminho escolhido pelo labirinto me faz quem sou.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 2846-2848 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 9:51:37 AM
A parte deprimente é que várias ideias em que psicólogos baseiam suas crenças sobre a inteligência humana, memória e aprendizagem são pensamento desejoso ou projeções.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3210-3213 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:19:12 AM
Inteligência é um dos maiores presentes humanos. Mas muito frequentemente a busca por conhecimento exclui a busca por amor. Isso é outra coisa que eu mesmo descobri recentemente. Apresento a vocês como uma hipótese: inteligência sem a habilidade de dar ou receber afeto leva a um colapso mental e moral, para neurose, e possivelmente até para psicose. E digo que a mente absorvida e envolvida em si mesma como um fim autocentrado, a ponto de excluir relações humanas, só pode levar à violência e à dor.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3242-3242 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:20:36 AM
Quem pode dizer que minha luz é melhor que a sua escuridão?
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3665-3667 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:42:20 AM
E agora as palavras de Platão riem de mim nas sombras das saliências atrás das chamas: – ... os homens da caverna diriam que sua ascensão lhe causara a ruína da vista...
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3711-3712 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:45:17 AM
Passei pelo seu andar quando subia e agora estou passando quando desço, e não acho que vou pegar esse elevador outra vez. Então vamos apenas nos despedir aqui e agora.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3780-3783 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:49:38 AM
Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3988-3990 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 11:02:58 AM
P.S. porfavor digam pro professor Nemur não ser tão mau umorado quando as peçoas riem dele e ele vai ter mais amigos. É fásil ter amigos si você dexa as peçoas rirem de você. Vo faze muitos amigos onde vou.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
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Publicado pela primeira vez em 1959 na forma de um conto e em 1966 como um romance epistolar, Flores para Algernon, de Daniel Keyes, foi um sucesso de público e crítica
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 31-37 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 11:06:37 AM
“Quem quer que seja dotado de um pouquinho de senso, continuei, há de lembrar que de dois modos e por duas causas perturba-se a visão: na passagem do claro para a escuridão e vice-versa: das trevas para a luz. Refletindo que a mesma coisa se dá com a alma, sempre que a vir debater-se em tais dificuldades e incapaz de discernir seja o que for, em vez de rir à toa, procurará saber se é por acabar de sair de uma vida mais luminosa e por falta de hábito que as trevas a dominam, ou se na passagem da ignorância para a luz fica ofuscada pelo efeito da claridade muito intensa. No primeiro caso, felicitará a alma pelas dificuldades presentes e por sua maneira de viver; no outro, a lastimará; e se tiver vontade de rir à sua custa, menos fora do propósito seria a gargalhada nesse caso do que com referência à alma que acabara de descer da luz...” Platão, A República [tradução de Benedito Nunes]
- Your Highlight on Location 434-435 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 9:57:21 AM
Não acho certo ter que fazer um teste pra comer. Será que o Burt ia gostar de ter que passar num teste sempre que quisesse comer. Acho que Algernon e eu seremos amigos.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 499-500 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:07:11 AM
Eu disse que todos os meus amigos são pessoas inteligentes e eles são bons. Eles gostam de mim e nunca fizeram algo que não fosse bom. Então alguma coisa entrou no olho dela e ela teve de correr para o banheiro.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 538-539 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:11:41 AM
Você está se desenvolvendo rápido, Charlie. Isso fez eu me sentir bem. Depois da lição, desci e brinquei com Algernon. Nós não competimos mais.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 573-575 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:13:41 AM
Eu nunca soube antes que Joe e Frank e os outros só gostavam de mim por perto para rir de mim. Agora sei o significado de dizer “dar uma de Charlie Gordon”. Eu me sinto envergonhado.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 592-592 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:15:05 AM
Acho que o garoto com uma expressão assustada no rosto sou eu.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 624-627 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:17:22 AM
– Quanto mais inteligente você se tornar, mais problemas você terá, Charlie. Seu crescimento intelectual vai ultrapassar seu crescimento emocional. E acho que você observará que, ao progredir, haverá muitas coisas sobre as quais você vai querer falar comigo. Eu só quero que se lembre de que este é o lugar para vir quando precisar de ajuda.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 654-657 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:19:35 AM
Então eu ainda não sei o que é Q.I., e todo mundo diz que é algo diferente. O meu está em torno de 100 agora e vai ficar em torno de 150 logo, mas eles ainda vão ter que me preencher com alguma coisa. Eu não queria dizer nada, mas não entendo como, se eles não sabem o que é, ou não sabem onde fica, como eles sabem o quanto disso você tem.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 851-852 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:32:12 AM
Assim que a confusão passar, ele vai se lembrar. Só mais alguns segundos e ele vai saber. Ele quer guardar o que aprendeu, só por um tempinho. Ele quer tanto.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1150-1150 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:48:28 AM
O que é correto? É irônico que toda a minha inteligência não me ajude a resolver um problema assim.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1185-1186 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:50:17 AM
– Charlie, você é incrível. Eu peguei a mão dela e a segurei: – Não, você é. Você toca meus olhos e me faz ver.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1252-1254 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:53:48 AM
É incrível a maneira como assuntos, aparentemente sem ligação, se conectam. Atingi mais um platô e, desde então, as correntes das diferentes disciplinas parecem mais próximas umas das outras, como se saíssem de uma única fonte.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1255-1257 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:53:57 AM
Não encontro mais prazer em discutir ideias em um nível tão elementar. As pessoas se ressentem quando alguém lhes mostra que elas não abordam as complexidades do problema do qual conhecem apenas ondas superficiais.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1271-1273 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:55:30 AM
Todos esses especialistas encontravam desculpas para escapar, com medo de revelar a limitação de seus conhecimentos. Como eles me parecem diferentes agora. E quão tolo fui de algum dia pensar que professores eram gigantes intelectuais. Eles são pessoas, e sentem medo de que o resto do mundo descubra.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1380-1382 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:00:40 AM
Estava tudo bem enquanto eles pudessem rir de mim e parecer inteligentes à minha custa, mas agora eles se sentiam inferiores ao imbecil. Comecei a ver que, por meio do meu surpreendente crescimento, eu os fiz encolher e enfatizei suas inadequações. Eu os havia traído, e eles me odiavam por isso.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1399-1401 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:01:54 AM
Essa inteligência tinha gerado uma cisão entre mim e todas as pessoas que conhecia e amava, me arrancando da padaria. Agora, estou mais sozinho que nunca. Eu me pergunto o que aconteceria se colocassem Algernon de volta na gaiola grande com alguns dos outros ratos. Eles se voltariam contra ele?
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1438-1438 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:04:00 AM
Sou como um animal que foi trancado do lado de fora de sua jaula boa e segura.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1609-1611 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 11:13:51 AM
Eu queria que você fosse inteligente. Eu queria ajudar você e compartilhar com você, e agora você me fechou do lado de fora de sua vida. Enquanto escutava o que ela dizia, a enormidade daquilo me ocorreu. Eu estava tão absorvido em mim mesmo e no que acontecia comigo que nunca pensara sobre o que acontecia com ela.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1625-1627 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 3:46:37 PM
Ah, você ficou insuportável! Como você sabe o que sinto? Você toma liberdades com a mente alheia. Não dá pra você saber como me sinto, o que sinto ou por que sinto.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 1958-1959 | Added on Saturday, March 14, 2020 4:06:08 PM
respeito sua dedicação, talvez até mais porque ele é simplesmente um homem comum tentando fazer o trabalho de um grande homem, enquanto todos os grandes homens estão ocupados fazendo bombas.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 2728-2729 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 9:34:28 AM
Não é amor – mas ela é importante para mim. Eu me pego tentando ouvir seus passos pelo corredor sempre que ela está fora de casa.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 2839-2841 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 9:51:01 AM
descobrir quem realmente sou – o significado de toda a minha existência – envolve conhecer as possibilidades do meu futuro e também do meu passado, aonde estou indo tanto quanto aonde já fui.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 2842-2843 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 9:51:13 AM
o caminho escolhido pelo labirinto me faz quem sou.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 2846-2848 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 9:51:37 AM
A parte deprimente é que várias ideias em que psicólogos baseiam suas crenças sobre a inteligência humana, memória e aprendizagem são pensamento desejoso ou projeções.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3210-3213 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:19:12 AM
Inteligência é um dos maiores presentes humanos. Mas muito frequentemente a busca por conhecimento exclui a busca por amor. Isso é outra coisa que eu mesmo descobri recentemente. Apresento a vocês como uma hipótese: inteligência sem a habilidade de dar ou receber afeto leva a um colapso mental e moral, para neurose, e possivelmente até para psicose. E digo que a mente absorvida e envolvida em si mesma como um fim autocentrado, a ponto de excluir relações humanas, só pode levar à violência e à dor.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3242-3242 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:20:36 AM
Quem pode dizer que minha luz é melhor que a sua escuridão?
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3665-3667 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:42:20 AM
E agora as palavras de Platão riem de mim nas sombras das saliências atrás das chamas: – ... os homens da caverna diriam que sua ascensão lhe causara a ruína da vista...
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3711-3712 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:45:17 AM
Passei pelo seu andar quando subia e agora estou passando quando desço, e não acho que vou pegar esse elevador outra vez. Então vamos apenas nos despedir aqui e agora.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3780-3783 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 10:49:38 AM
O universo explodia, cada partícula distante da outra, lançando-nos violentamente para o espaço escuro e solitário, eternamente nos separando um do outro – criança para fora do útero, amigo longe de amigo, mudando-se para lugares distantes, cada um com seu próprio caminho rumo à caixa de recompensas da morte solitária. Mas esse era o contraponto, o ato de prender e segurar.
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- Your Highlight on Location 3988-3990 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 11:02:58 AM
P.S. porfavor digam pro professor Nemur não ser tão mau umorado quando as peçoas riem dele e ele vai ter mais amigos. É fásil ter amigos si você dexa as peçoas rirem de você. Vo faze muitos amigos onde vou.
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 3990-3991 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 11:03:03 AM
P.S. porfavor si você tive uma opoturnidadi colo qui umas flores no tumulo du Algernon nu quintau.
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- Your Highlight on Location 16-17 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 11:04:05 AM
Publicado pela primeira vez em 1959 na forma de um conto e em 1966 como um romance epistolar, Flores para Algernon, de Daniel Keyes, foi um sucesso de público e crítica
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Flores Para Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
- Your Highlight on Location 31-37 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2020 11:06:37 AM
“Quem quer que seja dotado de um pouquinho de senso, continuei, há de lembrar que de dois modos e por duas causas perturba-se a visão: na passagem do claro para a escuridão e vice-versa: das trevas para a luz. Refletindo que a mesma coisa se dá com a alma, sempre que a vir debater-se em tais dificuldades e incapaz de discernir seja o que for, em vez de rir à toa, procurará saber se é por acabar de sair de uma vida mais luminosa e por falta de hábito que as trevas a dominam, ou se na passagem da ignorância para a luz fica ofuscada pelo efeito da claridade muito intensa. No primeiro caso, felicitará a alma pelas dificuldades presentes e por sua maneira de viver; no outro, a lastimará; e se tiver vontade de rir à sua custa, menos fora do propósito seria a gargalhada nesse caso do que com referência à alma que acabara de descer da luz...” Platão, A República [tradução de Benedito Nunes]
A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 66-68 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 3:28:46 PM
o incidente da noite de núpcias serviu para deixá-lo mais alto, fazendo com que precisasse baixar a cabeça ao se dirigir à esposa. Lá de baixo Eurídice aceitava.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 68-69 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 3:28:59 PM
Ninguém vale muito quando diz ao moço do censo que no campo profissão ele deve escrever as palavras “Do lar”.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 81-83 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 3:30:14 PM
Antenor saía para o trabalho, os filhos saíam para a escola e Eurídice ficava em casa, moendo carne e remoendo os pensamentos estéreis que faziam da sua uma vida infeliz.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 141-142 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 3:35:36 PM
Do pai ela herdou o gosto pela notícia, da mãe a vida restrita ao lar. Do mundo ganhou desgostos, do destino a falta de escolhas. Formou-se assim a essência da fofoqueira.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 667-668 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 4:25:54 PM
Moldou personalidades obsessivo-compulsivas, através da repetição de sentenças que preenchiam cadernos, tardes e as tais horas de pesadelo.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 751-752 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 4:30:49 PM
Aquela não era uma casa de muito diálogo. D. Ana e seu Manuel tinham orelhas mas não tinham ouvidos, e por isso eram incapazes de assimilar aquilo que não interessava. E nada que fosse diferente interessava.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 2127-2128 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 7:34:32 PM
Mas ela não via os pombos, a fila ou o ônibus. Era só o que tinha lido que Eurídice conseguia ver, ao olhar distraída pela janela da lotação.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 39-39 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 7:59:07 PM
Eurídice e Guida foram baseadas na vida das minhas, e das suas avós.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 33-34 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 7:59:23 PM
Eurídice e Guida. Elas ainda podem ser vistas por aí. Aparecem nas festas de Natal, onde passam a maior parte do tempo sentadas, com o guardanapinho nas mãos.
- Your Highlight on Location 66-68 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 3:28:46 PM
o incidente da noite de núpcias serviu para deixá-lo mais alto, fazendo com que precisasse baixar a cabeça ao se dirigir à esposa. Lá de baixo Eurídice aceitava.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 68-69 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 3:28:59 PM
Ninguém vale muito quando diz ao moço do censo que no campo profissão ele deve escrever as palavras “Do lar”.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 81-83 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 3:30:14 PM
Antenor saía para o trabalho, os filhos saíam para a escola e Eurídice ficava em casa, moendo carne e remoendo os pensamentos estéreis que faziam da sua uma vida infeliz.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 141-142 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 3:35:36 PM
Do pai ela herdou o gosto pela notícia, da mãe a vida restrita ao lar. Do mundo ganhou desgostos, do destino a falta de escolhas. Formou-se assim a essência da fofoqueira.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 667-668 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 4:25:54 PM
Moldou personalidades obsessivo-compulsivas, através da repetição de sentenças que preenchiam cadernos, tardes e as tais horas de pesadelo.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 751-752 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 4:30:49 PM
Aquela não era uma casa de muito diálogo. D. Ana e seu Manuel tinham orelhas mas não tinham ouvidos, e por isso eram incapazes de assimilar aquilo que não interessava. E nada que fosse diferente interessava.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 2127-2128 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 7:34:32 PM
Mas ela não via os pombos, a fila ou o ônibus. Era só o que tinha lido que Eurídice conseguia ver, ao olhar distraída pela janela da lotação.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 39-39 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 7:59:07 PM
Eurídice e Guida foram baseadas na vida das minhas, e das suas avós.
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A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão (Martha Batalha)
- Your Highlight on Location 33-34 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2020 7:59:23 PM
Eurídice e Guida. Elas ainda podem ser vistas por aí. Aparecem nas festas de Natal, onde passam a maior parte do tempo sentadas, com o guardanapinho nas mãos.
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