Quotes About Alterity

#1. Absolute alterity, as long as it remains absolute, cannot be apprehended at all; there is, effectively, no such thing.

Derek Attridge

#2. The first thing missing if you take a robot as a companion is alterity, the ability to see the world through the eyes of another.5 Without alterity, there can be no empathy.

Sherry Turkle

#3. We remained travelers, enclosed in the self, capable, possibly, of transforming ourselves in contact with alterity, but certainly not of experiencing it profoundly. We are spies, we make the rapid, furtive contact of spies. When

Mathias Enard

#4. What I am is very much a function of what I am not. If the "other" is the Muslim world, then I am the Judeo-Christian world. IF the other is from thousands of light-years away, I am simply human. Redefine alterity and you can erase boundaries.

Sylvain Neuvel

#5. One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

Jean Baudrillard

#6. To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.

Evan Thompson

#7. If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.

Matt Mullenweg

#8. As the bills fall into the jar, Alexandra takes her hand. "Come on Mackenzie, let's go to the American Girl store and spend some of Uncle Drew's money."
"Okay!

Emma Chase

#9. But then again what we seem to be is not always what we are.

Daniel Polansky

#10. Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured ... it was like coming home.

Richelle Mead

#11. What is that by knowing which everything in this universe is known?'22 That is the answer that Hindu philosophy seeks to provide.

Hindol Sengupta

#12. Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

Terry Eagleton

#13. A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

Jack Klugman

#14. I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

Sheryl Lee

#15. Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Hannah Arendt

#16. Life is a giant canvas and an elusive art.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Doubt words. Trust actions.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

Bill Murray

#19. I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.

Louis Leterrier

#20. Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

John Banville

#21. Baby don't wake me, let me take you on an endless journey. We touch and the softest kiss explodes with lust. It's real and you can't deny the heat you feel. And if I die before I wake, baby that's all right.

Steve Vai