Spatial Manufacture

“Do What Thou Wilt;

because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

“Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.”
― Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal

“We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians . . . nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply . . . The task that we set before ourselves is very simple as well as very beautiful . . . we will organize our children into a little community and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”
― John D. Couch, Rewiring Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student's Potential