
"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)
Kantian Ethics (2008)
"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)
Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004), p. 54
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, Police Dictatorships
Context: From 1936 to 1939 more than 1.2 million Party members, half of the total membership, were arrested. Only fifty thousand regained freedom; the others were tortured during interrogation or were shot (six hundred thousand) or died in camps. Only in isolated cases were the rehabilitated allowed to assume responsible posts; even fewer were permitted to take part in the investigation of crimes of which they had been witnesses or victims.
We are often told lately not to "rub salt into wounds." This is usually being said by people who suffered no wounds. Actually only the most meticulous analysis of the past and of its consequences will now enable us to wash off the blood and dirt that befouled our banner.
“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”
The Last Lecture (2008)
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 59
Since "the answers of the special sciences" do not reach "the horizon of total reality", they are given "without having to speak at the same time of 'God and the world.'" (p. 96)
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, p. 95
Paul Kurtz (1983) In defense of secular humanism, p. 15
“There’s going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that.”
Success: "Paul Allen is No Second Act" https://www.success.com/article/paul-allen-is-no-second-act (27 January 2009)