Kevin K

“Before the Christian religion had, as it were, humanized the idea of the divinity, and brought it somewhat nearer to us, there was very little said of the love of God.”
― Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

“Just as medieval society was balanced on God and the Devil, so ours is balanced on consumption and its denunciation.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures