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When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'

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You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.

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Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

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Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.

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I love folding laundry.

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Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

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Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being.

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The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale.

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'Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.

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The belief that 'animals' are superior or inferior to humans because they live in an eternal now is untrue, because no being lives in a now.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19th, 1968

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