“Someone who cannot acknowledge himself to be as mortal as everyone else still has a long way to go before he can reach the point of encounter.”

—  Paulo Freire

Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Someone who cannot acknowledge himself to be as mortal as everyone else still has a long way to go before he can reach …" by Paulo Freire?
Paulo Freire photo
Paulo Freire 115
educator and philosopher 1921–1997

Related quotes

John Grisham photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo
Tove Jansson photo
Ben Carson photo

“We cannot allow ourselves to be prejudiced against a subject, based upon what someone else has said or just upon the difficulty we encounter in learning.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 239

Joseph Campbell photo
Gloria Estefan photo

“However long we live here, however much I feel at home in Miami, I -- like everyone else -- am an exile, an exile who cannot go home.”

Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada

cubanet.org (May 15, 2000)
2007, 2008

Joseph Campbell photo
Pierre Hadot photo

“Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself”

Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) French historian and philosopher

trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 91
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
Context: Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the converse is equally true…From this perspective, every spiritual exercise is a dialogue, insofar as it is an exercise of authentic presence, to oneself and to others.

Related topics