“¿Qué es el vértigo? ¿El miedo a la caída? ¿Pero por qué también nos da vértigo en un mirador provisto de una valla segura? El vértigo significa que la profundidad que se abre ante nosotros nos atrae, nos seduce, despierta en nosotros el deseo de caer, del cual nos defendemos espantados.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“[Michael Bitbol] asked us to ponder whether the purpose of science is to provide answers about what things are in themselves, or if science is only our most advanced way of developing a pragmatic, conventional knowledge of phenomena sufficient to guide us in our actions.”
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“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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