Helmuth Plessner Quotes on Life
Helmuth Plessner was a German philosopher and one of the principal founders, with Max Scheler and Arnold Gehlen, of philosophical anthropology. This page collects quotes attributed to Helmuth Plessner on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Helmuth Plessner:
“We live an eccentric positionality: always at a distance from the body we are.”
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Attributed to Helmuth Plessner:
“Laughing and weeping mark the limits of behavior the body cannot govern.”
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Attributed to Helmuth Plessner:
“We are bodies, and we have bodies; that is the riddle of human existence.”
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Attributed to Helmuth Plessner:
“Civilization is the form in which we make a home in our own homelessness.”