Quotes About Mutilates

We always have competing wants, they are often incompatible, so in making choices essentials are sacrificed. Lives are tragic not merely when people can't have everything they want but when their wanting mutilates them; when what they want entails an unbearable loss.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

Separation is itself an integral part of the unity of this world, of a global social practice split into reality and image. The social practice confronted by an autonomous spectacle is at the same time the real totality which contains that spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point that the spectacle seems to be its goal.

power doesn't just corrupt in the wrong hands, it mutilates.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding. It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.