Foreword to Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology (1978) by Ronald S. Valle and Mark King
“Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.”
Pedro Arrupe (1907–1991) Twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus
'Men for Others' http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/men-for-others.html, 1973, Valencia, Spain
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Letter (7 August 1941) discussing responses to his essay "Science and Religion" (1941), p. 97
Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and Religion (1999)
Context: I was barked at by numerous dogs who are earning their food guarding ignorance and superstition for the benefit of those who profit from it. Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source. They are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional "opium for the people"—cannot bear the music of the spheres. The Wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Sex and the Shakespeare Reader http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2003). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
§ 136
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), (Suttas falling down)
Fredric Jameson (1934) American academic
Introduction
Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
“Only by being cultivated does a human being … become altogether human and permeated by humanity.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
Nur durch die Bildung wird der Mensch, der es ganz ist überall menschlich und von Menschheit durchdrungen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 65
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher
