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It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.


Jean Baudrillard


#new-york #postmodern #power #dreams

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.


C.S. Lewis


#culture #education #ethics #foundations #justice

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.


Alain de Botton


#fruit #impatience #modernity #equality

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.


Daniel C. Dennett


#multiple-drafts-model #qualia #experience

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.


Dave Barry


#cause #death #falling #fashion #grates

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.


P. Remes


#gratitude #humility #love #modesty #forgiveness

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.


John Philip Sousa


#although #balance #better #cases #combination

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.


Paul de Man


#betrays #both #error #exists #literature

My author role model is Kurata Misako. I want to be rich enough to drive from room to room in my home but also down to earth enough to let squirrels live in my hair.


Christy Leigh Stewart


#kurata-misako #role-model #role-models #squirrel #home

No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.


Philip K. Dick


#humor #postmodern #humor