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Daniel Quinn

Ishmael

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  • Isabel P.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    If it had been written from the Taker point of view, the knowledge of good and evil wouldn’t have been forbidden to Adam, it would have been thrust upon him. The gods would have hung around saying, ‘Come on, Man, can’t you see that you’re nothing without this knowledge? Stop living off our bounty like a lion or a wombat. Here, have some of this fruit and you’ll instantly realize that you’re naked—as naked as any lion or wombat: naked to the world, powerless. Come on, have some of this fruit and become one of us. Then, lucky you, you can leave this garden and begin living by the sweat of your brow, the way humans are supposed to live.’ And if people of your cultural persuasion had authored it, this event wouldn’t be called the Fall, it would be called the Ascent—or as you put it earlier, the Liberation.”
  • Isabel P.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn’t know how he ought to live.”
  • Balloon Womanhar citeretfor 3 år siden
    Human children dream of a land where the mountains are ice cream and the trees are gingerbread and the stones are bonbons.
  • Samantha Coronahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    they were unable to find the bars of the cage. If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual.”
  • Samantha Coronahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    nagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.
  • Samantha Coronahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    we gazed at each other in a long
  • Samantha Coronahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    silence as we had already done twice before. Finally—reluctantly, as if surmounting some daunting interior barrier—he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or
  • Samantha Coronahar citeretfor 4 år siden
    died inside of me—something that I’d always sort of liked and admired. In its place grew a scar—a tough spot but also a sore spot.
  • Ricardo Morahar citeretfor 5 år siden
    “That’s exactly the point. The gods plant only what you need. You will plant more than you need.”
  • Ricardo Morahar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won’t be enlightenment, it will be death
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