Tuesday 2 August 2011

Reading Downtown

Two quotes from Shakespeare from two different books.

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1.                          “We are such stuff                                                                     As dreams are made on, and our little life                                                            is rounded with a sleep.

The Tempest Act 4 Sc. 1.

From the “World as Will and Representation” by Arthur Schopenhauer as translated by E. F. J. Payne  (page 17)

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2. And be these juggling fiends no more believ’d,                                             That palter with us in a double sense;                                                               That keep the word of promise to our ear,                                                        And break it to our hope.

Macbeth Act 5 viii 19-22

From “The Great War for Civilization The Conquest of the Middle East” by Robert Fisk (page 437)

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A quote from Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Quit thy childhood, my friend and wake up.”

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Schopenhauer's book begins with “that which knows all things and is known by none is the subject”. That is the first person can perceive, while all the while being imperceptible.

I cannot see the you that sees. I can only see the you i see. That is your outside representation and my interpretation of said appearance.

I have no way of seeing your thoughts, or your feelings or your body sensations from your first person perspective 

At best i can only make assumptions about a particular gesture, a slip of tongue or tone of voice or you can describe your inner world to me but again it is impossible for me to insert myself into your perceiving self. 

It is a strange situation.                                                                               Everybody sees                                                                                                  but no one can see                                                                                            how the other person

is seeing.

No one can experience the first person of another person                                and if we could we would be unable to inflict                                                          as much harm on others as we do now.

(I hypothesize)

The dualism of perceived and perceiver

is over come through theological means

and a belief in a reality devoid of time…

some sort of unified divineness

 

meditation helps with circulation

prayer will warm your feet.       

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