Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.
Jack D. ZipesTag: communication fairy-tales conflict
Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications of moral distinction and valuation, for they are already caught, like it or not, in a complex dynamic of each other’s desires, recognition, power, and comparisons which not only relativizes moral distinctions and valuations, but makes them a constant and dangerous source of discord.
Gregory B. SadlerTag: politics power morality philosophy conflict desire recognition disagreements moral-theory thomas-hobbes
Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by the addition of a self-deceptive and egotistical desire for recognition and proof of one’s perhaps illusory power. In this moment, it is the very rationality of other humans, reason in the broad sense, understood as roughly equal to oneself in both capacity and structure, that poses such a threat
Gregory B. SadlerTag: politics reason human-nature danger rationality conflict
I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.
Joseph CampbellTag: science nature spiritual religion myth conflict joseph-campbell anachronism jeremy-mishlove
The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.
Hermann HesseTag: humanity peace war conflict dark-humor irony
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: science-fiction artists conflict
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
Rasheed OgunlaruTag: inspirational-quotes language mankind understanding evolution conflict mindfulness compassion-wisdom misunderstanding rasheed-ogunlaru
Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.
Richard EyreTag: peace children responsibility parenting conflict resolution kids entitlement ownership
Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
Mark TwainTag: conflict mark-twain
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
David LevithanTag: love relationships conflict
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