If you want to understand what it means to be afraid, what fear as experienced by human beings … - David Roochnik

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Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

David Roochnik

If you want to understand what it means to be afraid, what fear as experienced by human beings is, then your focus must shift. No longer will you be satisfied with mechanical, physiological, neurological accounts. For this inquiry will require you to observe closely what human beings feel, sing, think, write and say to one another.

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What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

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We live in a technocratic culture. We worship at the altar of technology. Our lives are increasingly shaped by the machinations of the techies. It is vital, therefore, for all of us to think hard about the role the technical plays in our lives.

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Modern science is a vast attempt to homogenize the universe. Aristotelian science, by contrast, remains faithful to our lived experience, and thus conceives of the world as essentially heterogeneous; composed of different kinds of beings.

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In our lives a dog is a dog rather than a former wolf, and it surely is not a cat, a difference that means an enormous amount to some people.

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The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.

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