“Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.” StillsIdeasUseSchoolCultureForceTeachClearWorstEssentialsCriticismCorruptionAliensTortureMaskIngredientsCensorshipCowardiceSubmitUse Of Force Author:Pablo Antonio Cuadra
“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.” WritingHumansLooksStillsUseProblemRealizingFiguresSpeechSymbolsAliensHuman LifeStaringComplexityHauntingUneasyFigures Of SpeechComplexity Of Human Book:The Educated Imagination Source: The Educated Imagination
“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.” MayStillsMotherFightingFatherExistenceConsciousnessGreaterRiskPossibilityInstinctAliensUnconsciousInjuryRejectsFeminineObscureAmbiguousMemories Dreams Reflections Book:The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.” MenMayDoeStillsRealPhilosophyLyingHe ManColdFaultsFormerAliensLatterAssured Book:The Logic of Hegel Source: The Logic of Hegel