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“We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.”

Protect Losing Losing Ourselves

Author:Rand Paul

“We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.”

Mean Self Hate Self Love Losing Contrary Pursue Selfishness Mixtures Really Mean Loving Others Self Hate Losing Ourselves

Author:Paul Valery

“Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.”

“It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.”

Art Said Spirit Creation Citizens Civilization Losing Discovery Available Insight Invention Crafts Inquiry Losing Ourselves

Author:Paul Goodman

“Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.”

Firsts Sometimes Losing Losing Ourselves

Book:A Step of Faith: A Novel

Source: A Step of Faith: A Novel

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

Source: No Man Is an Island

“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”

Way Water Sea Losing Metaphor Seeming Semblance Treading Treading Water Losing Ourselves

Author:Roberto Bolano

“When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.”

Feels Secret Sacrifice Share Trust Losing Abuse Oppression Exposed Father Son Sacrifice For Others Self Trust Losing Ourselves

Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”

Source: No Man Is an Island

“How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?”

Humans Process Loses Human Beings Attention Talking Willing Losing Pay Attention Lazy Live By Iphone Short Life Blackberries Losing Ourselves

Author:Joshua Foer