#texts

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#seldom #tyrants #want

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#am #believe #claim #echoes #i

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect

There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#book #many #misunderstand #mormon #other

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#contexts #discourse #forum #happens #human

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#ancient #collective #culture #inner #maps

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art #bad #began #careful #experience

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#i #material #poster #see #short

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#living #needs #only #pretexts #reasons