Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used “to tell” at all.
~ Umberto Eco
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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Thus people – so it seems to me – become good friends from sheer ennui.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Unmediated concepts veil the relations between objects and therefore the object which is known through them is not the capitalist system of production itself, but the ideology of its ruling class.
~ György Lukács
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I don’t miss my youth. I’m glad I had one, but I wouldn’t like to start over.
~ Umberto Eco
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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Ingratitude is more common than you might think.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Kafka was a realist.
~ György Lukács
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