#nsa

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#analysis #defy #issues #mental #movement

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. ↗

— Woody Allen

#compensated #developed #education #his #keenly

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. ↗

— Louis Althusser

#conditions #demands #equipped #existence #formed

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. ↗

— David Antin

#between #distinctions #i #i am #literate

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#entitles #experience #indispensable #love #love is

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#asylum #conversation #cut #each #every

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#finding #insane #life #majority #object

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. ↗

— John Avlon

#administration #been #being #believe #comes

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#christianity #classification #distinguished #good #knowledge

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

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