Michele Pasin / Quotes

Lo specchio non inganna: sei giapponese

Parlavamo del fatto che sei giapponese. Lo specchio non inganna. Potrai imitare Michael Jackson e pasticciarti gli zigomi e il naso, o potrai essere un…

Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni) #japan #identity #culture

Mai americani, mai più davvero giapponesi

. «È proprio questo che voglio dire. Non sarete mai americani o canadesi. Mai e poi mai. Ma una volta che siete stati qui, non potrete mai più essere…

Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni) #japan #identity #expatriates #culture #conformity

Psychological continuity in every human society

despite the notorious confusions of westerners trying to get by in Japanese culture, neither locals nor foreigners ever have any difficulty in treating…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #psychological-continuity #culture #personal-identity #japan

Cameron's list of British virtues

Resilient. Realistic. Intelligent. Curious. Enterprising. Inventive. Unswerving. It's the spirit that has made our universities among the best in the world…

David Cameron's New Year Message #music #television #spirit

Free spirits have contempt for that which is called their "duty"

It may be conjectured that a soul in which the type of "free spirit" can attain maturity and completeness had its decisive and deciding event in the form of a…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #soul #types #spirit #maturity

Luther's reformation and Shopenauer's doctrine are both metaphysical

Luther's reformation shows that in his century all the impulses to freedom of the spirit were still uncertain, lacking in vigor, and immature. Science could…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #science #doctrine #spirit