"Patocka used to say that the most interesting thing about responsibility is that we carry it with us everywhere. That means that responsibility is ours, that we must accept it and grasp it here, now, in this place in time and space where the Lord has set us down, and that we cannot lie our way out of it by moving somewhere else..."
The Power of the Powerless
[Jan Patocka was a Czech Philosopher of Phenomenology, banned from teaching by the Communists, and a signer of Charter 77]
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