Nicholas Gane quote — “... Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's i…”

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... Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's individuality on the world, one has to work against the fabric of modern culture itself and uphold ultimate values in the face of purely instrumental and ever more 'rational' forces.

Nicholas Gane Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationa… ensign struggle unpopular

Aurobindo Sri

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; m…

Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange art lovemaking music violence

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

William James instincts