#behaviour

Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude - at the expense of the beliefs we exhibit and externalize in our behavior. So long as we believe (in our hearts) that capitalism is bad, we are free to continue to participate in capitalist exchange. According to Zizek, capitalism in general relies on this structure of disavowal. We believe that money is only a meaningless token of no intrinsic worth, yet we act as if it has a holy value. Moreover, this behavior precisely depends upon the prior disavowal - we are able to fetishize money in our actions only because we have already taken an ironic distance towards money in our heads. ↗

— Mark Fisher

#belief #capitalism #capitalist-realism #ideology #money

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get. ↗

— Brené Brown

#healing #healing-the-past #professional-exposure #vulnerability #courage

Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#infidelity

It is so suprising that passion of love had diminish in our century, and many love for mere pleasures of the flesh. ↗

— Michael Bassey Johnson

#love #sex #love

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love, which runs through creation and is common to the lowest animals and plants, it appears as a kind of organic basis for the unity of all creatures; in another, as the love of the mother for her offspring—which may also be termed a passion—it seems to pledge itself to the care and guardianship of the future race; in another, as the marriage of man and woman, it becomes the very foundation of human society. And so we can hardly believe that in its homogenic form, with which we are here concerned, it has not also a deep significance, and social uses and functions which will become clearer to us, the more we study it. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#animals #homosexuality #human-sexuality #love #marriage

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#nature

The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one. ↗

— Chester Brown

#answer #behaviour #century #coming #end

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#behaviour #camera #damn #does #filming

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#expect #interesting #look #lot #mistakes

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#characters #great #human #human behaviour #root