#counter

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#become #consciousness #encounter #expand #experiences

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

#both #congress #controls #cooperate #divisive

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#cases #counterfeit #make #makes #many

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#encounter #himself #least #love #many

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#art #counterfeit #counterpart #reproduced

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty. ↗

— T.E. Lawrence

#military #beauty

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#fourth-generation-warfare #change

Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#borges #counterbook #imaginable-permutations #orbis-tertius #tlön

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#art #between #control #encounter #i

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bigger #encounter #him #life #make