
Source: Plague from Space (1965), Chapter 13 (p. 136)
2007
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Alien 3
Source: Plague from Space (1965), Chapter 13 (p. 136)
“Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 483
Context: Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie, concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.
Quotes, 1881 - 1890, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg', August 1890
“Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.”
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Context: The relationship to the world that the modern science fostered and shaped now appears to have exhausted its potential. It is increasingly clear that, strangely, the relationship is missing something. It fails to connect with the most intrinsic nature of reality and with natural human experience. It is now more of a source of disintegration and doubt than a source of integration and meaning. It produces what amounts to a state of schizophrenia: Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.
“All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, Planet of Exile (1966), Chapter 4 (The Tall Young Men)
Source: Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990), p.28.