“Imagination over dogma, vulnerability over serenity, aspiration over obligation, comedy over tragedy, hope over experience, prophecy over memory, surprise over repetition, the personal over the impersonal, time over eternity, life over everything.”
Source: The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound (2007), p. 237
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger 94
Brazilian philosopher and politician 1947Related quotes

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