Philosophy can make people sick.
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.
No reality transforms itself.
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah. ” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.
Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.
The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, because we seem uniquely amongst creatures on the planet to have this far-developed sense of morality.
On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.
I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.