#lis

Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created. Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#economics #marxism #planned-economy #socialism #imagination

As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that is not obvious in a society dominated by what is utilitarian and functional. Rather they represent a natural surplus of imaginative abundance that may confound or reinforce the way we perceive the world, but which never does so in a simple way. Even though they may have no direct social use, they nonetheless embody the actual state of real relations between people. ↗

— Michael Richardson

#peret #stories #surrealism #imagination

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#causation #cause-and-effect #chance #darwinism #inspirational

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#accomplish #christian #great-britain #heard #hope

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#achievement #inspirational #misattributed #modesty #recognition

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#best #differences #learn #listen #listening

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you? ↗

— Henry Ford

#determination #inspirational #inspirational

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #anything #commanding #ever #excellent

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.) ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existentialism #handeln #inspirational #philosophy #reality

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. ↗