You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
~ Iain Banks
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
~ T.S. Eliot
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You can hope for lucky encounters only if you walk around a lot.
~ A. J. Liebling
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The Generative AI Statement recently published by Rutgers University – New Brunswick can be found:
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
~ George Santayana
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John Mearsheimer | The Inevitability of War
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At root, intersectionality teaches that the relative victim status of various groups is the deepest truth, and this framework must drive our interpretation of both natural and built reality. Truth, moral claims, beauty, dignity, the explanatory value of a research insight—all of these must be subjugated to a prior determination of the historical power or powerlessness of certain sociological categories.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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