Quotes About Otherness

Iedereen is de ander, en niemand is zichzelf.

The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.

Or the people they call terrorists. If it's you who's in the foreign country, and the people you're waiting for arguably have more of a right to be there than you do, who's the terrorist?

Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.

A blurred region, in the heart of vastness, far from earth and heaven, with no ground underfoot, no vault of sky overhead, nothing. I am the prisoner of an alien matter and my body is clothed in a dead, formless substance - or rather I have no body, I am that alien matter.

Únicamente podéis comprender a alguien ajeno a vosotros en la medida en que se humanice. La falta de universalidad de la Inteligencia encerrada en las normas de una especie constituye un curioso purgatorio con la muralla ubicada en el infinito.

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager

Where does it begin this sense of being the Other?

Simplemente, no sentimos tanta empatía hacia los que vemos como -los otros-

L'immagine che conservo della mezz'ora passata con loro è una scena da film dell'orrore. Ci siamo noi, puliti e in ordine, incolumi, e attorno a noi la cerchia dei lebbrosi, dei radioattivi, dei naufraghi tornati allo stato selvaggio. Solo il giorno prima erano come noi, noi eravamo come loro, ma a loro è capitato qualcosa che a noi non è capitato, e adesso apparteniamo a due umanità separate.

People who look like human beings are not human beings. Strange people are amongst us. We must be careful. Our lives are changing. Our gods are silent. Our ancestors are silent. A great something is going to come from the sky and change the face of the earth.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Don't be amazed. There is nothing strange about eight white men being alone and therefore helpless.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

And this is what I learned: that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

And this is what I learned: that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me. it is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel. Oh! my creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you of one benefit!

És cert que serem monstres, separats de tot el món; però per això mateix ens sentirem més units l'un a l'altre.

Exposure to an unusually spectacular place in conducive circumstance, the thinking goes, can release one from the prison of one's own ego and initiate a renewed awareness of the wondrous, salutary, and informing nature of the Other, the thing outside of the self.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

Miedo y odio son el origen del mal: Rahini tenía razón. Miedo y odio a lo extraño, a lo ajeno, a lo que no somos nosotros. Pero se trata solo de oscuridad. Y la oscuridad es pequeña en comparación con la luz de las palabras.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.