Heidegger said this: Existential analysis has the character of doing violence, whether to the claims of the everyday interpretation, or to its complacency and its tranquillized obviousness. I think there is so much in this sentence that it encompasses all of life its beauty and tragedy… all that humans do are in this one sentence… for me… I... Read More »

I did not check exactly how he phrased it but it was Richard Rorty who said something like that. He said “The world doesn’t speak… human beings do.” So true… The deer doesn’t say “I am pretty,” the rose doesn’t say “I smell good,” “the lion doesn’t say “I am powerful,” the weather doesn’t say... Read More »