Lars Svendsen Quotes

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.

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

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

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