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“Words prepare the way for deeds to come, detonate future explosions.”
― Conversations with Kafka
― Conversations with Kafka
“At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”
― City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
― City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
“The most ancient parts of truth … also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They also mediated between still earlier truths and what in those days were novel observations. Purely objective truth, truth in whose establishment the function of giving human satisfaction in marrying previous parts of experience with newer parts played no role whatsoever, is nowhere to be found. The reasons why we call things true is the reason why they are true, for "to be true" means only to perform this marriage-function.”
― Pragmatism and Other Writings
― Pragmatism and Other Writings
“We all know the classic scene in the cartoons: the cat reaches the precipice but goes on walking, ignoring the fact that there is no ground under hits fee; it starts to fall only when it looks down and notices the abyss.”
― Event
― Event
“The time is coming when it will hardly be possible to write a book of philosophy as it has been done for so long: "Ah! the old style.... " The search for new means of philosophical expression was begun by Nietzsche and must be pursued today in relation to the renewal of certain other arts, such as the theater or the cinema. In this context, we can now raise the question of the utilization of the history of philosophy. It seems to us that the history of philosophy should play a role roughly analogous to that of collage in painting.”
― Difference and Repetition
― Difference and Repetition
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