“Some speak of search for their roots. But that is a false metaphor. For these strands that we trace backward through time have no root tips. Each ancestral name and date we identify points back toward two more still hidden in the mists, and behind each of these, yet another pair. The mists that hide…”— Herbert A. Simon, amazon.com
“And thus the project of self-realization is thrown back on the experience of self-loss from it springs.”— Thomas Harrison, amazon.com
“Since the self is inherently a fiction, the only genuine end of self-transformation is aesthetic: to perpetually overlay the groundless self with 'style' for the sake of making it ever more attractive and interesting.”— Richard Wolin, amazon.com
“Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom—and there is no longer any 'land.'”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“There is also something unsettling about Nietzsche proposing anything like a 'supreme moral principle' after his criticisms against Kant's ethical theory. Nietzsche's critiques of morality suggest that offering a new first principle for morality is not his project. His problems with Kant's Categoric…”— Linda L. Williams, amazon.com
“In Schmitt’s view, all thought, which does not recognize that order is created out of disorder and that rationality is based on an 'irrational' foundation, is itself irrational.”— Mika Ojakangas, amazon.com