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The Grand Illusion

2020-01-30 · 953 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

The Grand Illusion — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "I"s, very often entirely unk
The Grand Illusion — pen and ink drawing

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"Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "I"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "I". And each time his I is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion."

"Faith of consciousness is freedom Faith of feeling is weakness Faith of body is stupidity."

"Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on…

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