Quotes
Just a place for me to deposit quotes I don’t want to forget.
“Modern man is out of touch with nature, which, of course, means that he is out of touch with reality” (Jung, paraphrase via Nathan)
“charismatic interventions in history suffer unavoidably from banalization” – Charles Taylor
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- Why I have come to hate blogging (in a blog-post) & Journalism (not quite lumped together)
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- What is love?
- Some Academic Projects
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