Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Manipulation and appreciation, p. 82 -->
Context: Fellowship depends on appreciation while manipulation is the cause of alienation: objects and I apart, things stand dead, and I am alone. What is more decisive: a life of manipulation distorts the image of the world. Reality is equated with availability: What I can manipulate is, what I cannot manipulate is not. A life of manipulation is the death of transcendence.
“Genuine sincerity opens people's hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.”
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Manipulation and appreciation, p. 82 -->
Context: There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation. In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
“Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.”
“Appreciation - Learn to give flowers while people are still living”
On David Letterman — interview in Joanne Weintraub (November 21, 2000) "Mr. Midwest - Jim Gaffigan tries to hold his own", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. 1.
“While his brushstrokes are rudimentary, bystanders appreciated the artist's unorthodox style.”
[Annette Sharp, The Diary: Painting by members, The Sun-Herald, Sydney, Australia, 29 July 2007, 2, Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited]
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“I really began to appreciate puppetry [while doing Sam and Friends].”
Interview with Associated Press (1984)
Source: Time is the Simplest Thing (1961), Chapter 32 (p. 249)
