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Education leads toward a continuing self-discovery; training leads toward a final self-definition.
Training repeats a completed past in the future. Education continues an unfinished past into the future.
For that reason they do not play for their own life; they live for their own play.
A strong person is one who carries the past into the future, showing that none of its issues is capable of resolution.
It is apparent to infinite players that wealth is not so much possessed as it is performed.
“Artists do not create objects, but create by way of objects” (Rank).
a society is defined by its boundaries, a culture is defined by its horizon.
On the contrary, since freedom is never freedom from society, but freedom for it, my freedom inherently affirms yours.
reality cannot be invented, but only discovered through the exercise of reason
My parents may have wanted a child, but they could not have wanted me.
A hurricane, or a plague, or the overpopulation of the earth will seem chaotic to those whose cultural expectations are damaged by them and orderly to those whose expectations have been confirmed by them.
Waste persons do not constitute an alternative or threatening society; they constitute an unveiling culture. They are therefore “purged.” A society cleanses itself of them.
