Quotes About Other

the will to conquer other people's minds or territories or aspirations…is meaningless.

The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, could I still call myself an atheist?

T]he most basic division is 'me' and 'everything else,' self and other.

But the supposedly mind-broadening anecdotes owe their appeal to a patronizing willingness to treat other cultures' psychologies as weird and exotic compared to our own.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

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.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Seek God in and through meetings with others and the world. Seek the other as unique and different, as "other," for behind the other as human partner stands the eternal and transcendent other, the eternal Thou, God.

In establishing a pole of internal identity in relation to the environment, the autopoietic process brings forth, in the same stroke, what counts as other, the organism's world. To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.

When you get the right representation, there's an ease that comes to your mind that allows you to focus on other things.

I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

It is only in the terrible phantasms of drugs or delirium that any other man can have such a descent as mine.

The other investigators, all males and oh so clever, called her Squirt. Investigators. You get them started, they'll shred you with the cutting lines. But

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

The Mad Arab speaks of the Gates several times in his opening remarks, and then goes on to give quite emphatic instructions as to how the Gate should be opened, and when, and accompanied by what words, diagrams, etc. He also insists that, once having begun the process of going through the Gates, one should not stop along the way but continue straight through until all seven have been passed. The reason is clear: passing through only a few of the Gates is enough to let something Other in.

The articulation of the other's body in words turns it into a map of possible pleasure, effectively distancing that body by transforming it into an erotic object.

Mirroring makes speech possible; language relies on the reflective quality of I and you through which verbal interaction becomes possible.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.