Alphonso lingis quotes about happiness

  • How good to be alive!
  • “Power among humans is not simply the physical force with which one material body may move another; it is the force to distract, detour, maneuver, and command.”.
  • “We would not know what happens if we did not know extreme pleasure, if we did not know extreme pain!

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    At the end of his letter of advice written to James Harmon for his book, Take My Advice, Alphonso Lingis writes “Never make any important decision out of depression, a sense of needs, of dependency.” He continues to explain that when you make choices because of fear, those choices typically end up being poor choices.  According to Lingis, decisions that are made during happy moments are decisions that are made with more clarity, and more closely align with your true inner feelings.

    For Lingis, when we make decisions because we are afraid of negative feelings or because we believe that it is what is expected of us, especially when those feelings don’t align with our own desires, we end up making hasty choices that in the long run will lead us to more difficult situations.

    For me, this has been something that I have experienced multiple times.  There was a point in college where I was not happy and I was uncertain about my future.  I decided to switch my major to business because

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    “Those who find ecstasy do so not by visiting the shrines of civilization but by trudging in the swamps of human destitution and misery. Our literature of ecstasy recounts the dark nights of the soul and encounters with mystics in the slums and in the refugee camps of genocidal wars.”
    ― Alphonso Lingis

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    “You will be identified as thin-skinned and moody; in reaction you will identify yourself as civilized and sensitive. You will barricade yourself in that preposterous condition known as self-respect.”
    ― Alphonso Lingis, Dangerous Emotions

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    “Power among humans fryst vatten not simply the physical force with which one material body may move another; it fryst vatten the force to distract, detour, maneuver, and command. Every pleasure we indulge in and every pain we suffer exerts power over others.”
    ― Alphonso Lingis, Dangerous Emotions

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    Passion in Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Alphonso Lingis 9781498534673, 9781498534680

    Table of contents :
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    I: Passion in Philosophy
    Chapter One: Aconcagua
    Chapter Two: Existence in Excess
    Chapter Three: Symbiotic Passion in Lingis
    Chapter Four: Love and Lust after Levinas and Lingis
    Chapter Five: On Alphonso Lingis’s 80th Birthday—A Philosophical Journey
    II: Collaborations: Lingis and the Philosophical Tradition
    Chapter Six: Collaborations
    Chapter Seven: The Importance of Alphonso Lingis in Introducing Emmanuel Levinas to America
    Chapter Eight: Alterity after Infinity
    Chapter Nine: Resisting Individuality
    Chapter Ten: Imperative Innovations
    Chapter Eleven: Amor Fati
    Works Cited
    List of Works by Alphonso Lingis
    Index
    Contributors

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    Passion in Philosophy

    Passion in Philosophy Essays in Honor of Alphonso Lingis Edited by Randolph C. Wheeler

    LEXINGTON BOOKS Lanham • Boulder • New York • London

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