"it is comical to use ones quest for the ineffable Other as an excuse for ignoring other peoples quite different quests. it is comical to think that anyone could transcend the quest for happiness, to think that any theory could be more than a means to happiness, that there is something called Truth which transcends pleasure and pain."
"we all just stand for ourselves, equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood, but nobody has the right to rule."
"heidegger, kundera, and dickens." essays on heidegger and others. richard rorty
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