Best 3 quotes of Svend Brinkmann on MyQuotes

Frihed består ikke i en konstant kredsen om sig selv og sine indre lyster og ønsker, men i en besindelse på det, man er en del af og kommer fra.

In our secular world, we no longer see eternal paradise as a carrot at the end of the stick of life, but try to cram as much as possible into our relatively short time on the planet instead. This is, of course, a futile endeavour, doomed to failure. It is tempting to interpret the modern epidemics of depression and burnout as the individual's response to the unbearable nature of constant acceleration. The decelerating individual - who slows down instead of speeding up, and maybe even stops completely - seems out of place in a culture characterised by manic development, and may be interpreted pathologically (i.e. diagnosed as clinically depressed).

Så selvet er hverken vores psyke eller vores biologiske krop, ej heller summen af dem, men derimod det, at et menneske kan forholde sig til syntesen (eller forholdet) mellem dem. Selvet er altså det forhold ved os, at vi ikke blot har et forhold til vores psyke, krop eller verden i almindelighed, men kan forholde os til, hvordan vi forholder os til disse størrelser.