Soluna Villar > Soluna's Quotes

“I do not subscribe to 'been there done that', I want to be able to use all of my tools to move a problem.”
― Lauren Berlant

“If space is oriented, then what appears depends on one's point of view.”
― Sarah Ahmed

“Every thought is an afterthought.”
― Hannah Arendt

“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate”
― Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature

“Entropy is the price of structure.”
― Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature

“The main character of any living system is openness.”
― Ilya Prigogine

“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
― Gertrude Stein

“There is no place for an artist here any more. He has been officially dismissed in favor of the entertainer.”
― Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

“Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself.”
― Alan Watts

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Technology is the answer, but what was the question?”
― Cedric Price

“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.”
― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”
― Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.”
― Andrea Dworkin

“I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.”
― Andrea Dworkin

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.”
― Margaret Atwood

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”
― Jorge Luis Borges