Quotes
“Authoritarians cannot rise if there are strong communities and people are acting with joy. That is, you need despair and anger in order for an authoritarian to rise. Whatever those things are that you bring to the community, do them and do them with joy, and don’t stop doing the things you love because you’re scared, because that actually is a
... See moreLies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla
... See moreNeil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
‘We are all insects,’ he said to Miss Ephreikian. ‘Groping towards something terrible or divine.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do.
– Henry Moore (sculptor)
Virginia Woolf on her ideal diary:
I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do.”
"When I sit down to write, the meadow is still engulfed in darkness under a sky where satellites pass by, one after the other. My thoughts are flighty and shapeless, like dreams; they morph as I approach them. But when I open my notebook and write, it is as if I pin my thoughts to the table. I can examine them." - Henrik Karlson
“The ideal or the dream would be to arrive as a language that heals as much as it separates.” - Susan Sontag
Ben Franklin on Knowledge: “An investment in knowledge pays best interest.”