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Quotes from Self and World — Eli Siegel

1902–1978 Latvia

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Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.

Self and World (1957)

Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.

Self and World (1957)

There is a disposition in every person to think he will be for himself by making less of the outside world.

Self and World (1957)

No self can truly know itself and be ashamed.

Self and World (1957)

The artist created; the owner possessed.

Self and World (1957)

The world should be owned by the people living in it. Every person should be seen as living in a world truly his. All persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs.

Self and World (1957)

There is a deep and "dialectic" duality facing every human being, which can be put this way: How is he to be entirely himself, and yet be fair to that world which he does not see as himself?

Self and World (1957)

So we are alone in our blood and bones and our thoughts. It seems we are separate if we want to feel that way. And yet we can look out.

Self and World (1957)

A person is separate from all other things and together with all other things. To understand opposites in a self, the meaning of together and separate must be seen (this meaning is like that of same and different).

Self and World (1957)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eli Siegel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.