Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
~ Richard Rorty
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There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
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Does the imagination dwell the most upon a woman won or woman lost?
~ William Butler Yeats
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Simple awareness is the seed of responsibility.
~ Jenny Odell
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The succes of a brand on the long term is not based on a number of consumers that buy it once, but on the number of consumers who become regular buyers of the brand.
~ Jacob Jacoby
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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
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You have to think carefully in advance about what you’re making and how you will make it, because for both architecture and industrial design, the cost of changing things afterward is much higher than the cost of better preparation.
~ Dieter Rams
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No well-run yacht basin is complete without at least two Estonians.
~ Ernest Hemmingway
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