Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

“Da bi nešto moglo da dobije visoku vrednost, najvažnije je da to drugi ljudi ne poseduju.”

“The difference between imaginary and real object creates a continuos desire”

“Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings.”

“A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.”

“For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.”

“Heidegger’s concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means ‘being-there’.We are the sort of beings who are there, in the world. What characterizes Dasein is that its existence is a concern for it in its existence.”

“One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.”

“Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.”

“We spontaneously relate to ourselves and the world by means of the technical object.”

“Traditions brings continuity to one’s existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lostthroughout modernity.”

“Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.”

“In order to live a meaningful life,humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These ‘answers’ do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words does not necessarily indicate a lack of understanding, but one has to able to place oneself in the world and build a relatively stable identity. The founding of such an identity is only possible if one can tell a relatively coherent story about who one has been and who one intends to be.”

“Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.”

“Man is a world-forming being, a being that actively constitutes his own world, but when everything is always already fully coded, the active constituting of the world is made superfluous, and we lose friction in relation to the world.We Romantics need a meaning that we ourselves realize – and the person who is preoccupied with self-realization inevitably has a meaning problem. This is no one collective meaning in life any more, a meaning that it is up to the individual to participate in. Nor is it that easy to find an own meaning in life, either. The meaning that most people embrace is self-realization as such, but it is not obvious what type of self is to be realized, nor whatshould possibly result from it. The person who is certain as regards himself will not ask the question as to who he is. Only a problematic self feels the need for realization.”