A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.
~ Umberto Eco
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Category Archives: 2059 – Quote Unquote
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. …
You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.
~ Gertrude Stein
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I never trust people with no appetite. It’s like they’re always holding something back on you.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of meaning of the words by which the ideals of the new regimes are expressed.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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A good artist lets her intuition lead her wherever it wants.
~ Lao Zi
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
~ William Faulkner
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By 11th grade, the high-IQ students and their parents have spent so many years immersed in the college-admissions game that they, like 18th-century aristocrats evaluating which family has the most noble line, are able to make all sorts of fine distinctions about which universities have the most prestige: Princeton is better than Cornell; Williams is better than Colby.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
― Walter Benjamin
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