Julian Young quotes
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“The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits.”
-- Julian YoungSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“I drifted into a career in academic philosophy because I couldn't see anything outside the academy that looked to be anything other than drudgery. But I wouldn't say I 'became a philosopher' until an early mid-life crisis forced me to confront the fact that, while 'philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', and 'wisdom' is the knowledge of how to live well, the analytic philosophy in which I had been trained seemed to have nothing to do with life.”
-- Julian YoungSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and boredom. Since then I have expanded my horizons, but I have always retained an affection for the sage of Frankfurt.”
-- Julian YoungSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“In aesthetic consciousness we enter that painless state, prized by Epicurus as the state of the gods; for a moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath from the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.”
-- Julian YoungSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“The everyday world, as Kant proved, is mere appearance. But it is also the only world in which we can make sense of the idea of a plurality of distinct individuals. We can only distinguish things as different if they occupy different regions of space-time. It follows (a point Kant missed but which the mystics have always understood) that reality 'in itself' is 'beyond plurality' and is, in that sense, 'One'.”
-- Julian YoungSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.”
-- Julian YoungSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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Source : "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.
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Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor
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“I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.”
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“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.”
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“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”
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“One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.”
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“Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.”
Source : Interview with Matt Cotterill, higher-frequency.com. April 15, 2006.
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