Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Quotes

• “The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We ...”
• “So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—an...”
• “The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was ...”
• “Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlik...”
• “Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experi...”