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Quotes About Other

The presence of the other, which can be very threatening, becomes, in play, a delightful source of curiosity, and this curiosity contributes toward the development of healthy attitudes in friendship, love, and, later, political life. Winnicott
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.
~ Martin Buber
"I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.
~ Unknown
There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.
~ Matthew Arnold
We define empathy here as the ability to enter into affective resonance with the other's feelings and to become cognitively aware of his situation. Empathy alerts us in particular to the nature and intensity of the sufferings experienced by the other. One could say that it catalyzes the transformation of altruistic love into compassion.
~ Matthieu Ricard
There is already a kind of presence of the other in me.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and identity difference of difference.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Memory is the irruption of other things in us.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Moon shows us only one side of its face and there is no man on Earth who can succeed this! Every man's other face has its time to be seen!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as Other.[30]
~ Unknown
era un'altra patologia, un'altra storia, e me ne tornai a letto quasi rasserenato a dimostrazione di quanto ci rassicuri, in mezzo ai nostri drammi, l'esistenza di altri drammi che ci siano stati risparmiati.
~ Michel Houellebecq
It is the suffering of being that makes us seek out the other, as a palliative; we must go beyond this stage to reach the state where the simple fact of being constitutes in itself a permanent occasion of joy; where intermediation is nothing more than a game, freely undertaken, and not constitutive of being. We must, in a word, reach the freedom of indifference, the condition for the possibility of perfect serenity.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Satan's metaphysical existence can never be separated from the politics of domination, specifically colonialism. It provides vides the dominant culture with the ability to depict those whom they conquer, oppress, and repress as the Other.
~ Unknown
some things are so awful, you can't look them square in the face and some things make no sense no matter what angle you look at them from. and of course they happen in other people's lives, never in your own.
~ Unknown
Alguns dos nossos desejos só se cumprem no outro, os pesadelos pertencem a nós mesmos.
~ Unknown
Oh that's right Keep away from me Please give me a push Don't let me understand you Don't realise me Or we might tumble together Depersonalized Identical Into the terrific Nirvana Me you --- you --- me
~ Mina Loy
Sin is here the kind of purity that wants the world cleansed of the other rather than the heart cleansed of the evil that drives people out by calling those who are clean "unclean" and refusing to help make clean those who are unclean. Put
~ Miroslav Volf
It was as simple and yet as incomprehensible as the moment a small child asks her father, "Why can't you be with us?" And the father must utter the terrible words, "There are other children like you, a great many of them...." and then one's voice trails off.
~ Nelson Mandela
So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.
~ Unknown
There never was an overseer on the whole plantation. The oldest colored man always looked after the niggers. We niggers lived better than the niggers on the other plantations.
~ Unknown
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
~ Octavio Paz
Further, you should see whether or not self and other—that is, self and strangers, self and family, self and society—are unified in the place called "here." In this place Self and object fuse and become one body in an experience known in Zen as "the boundless realm of time and space where not even the width of a hair separates self and other.
~ Unknown
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
~ Oscar Wilde
Language is for itself the order of the Same. The world is its Other. The attestation of this otherness arises from language's reflexivity with regard to itself, whereby it knows itself as being in being in order to bear on being.
~ Paul Ricoeur