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“Fine works of art would never become dated if they contained nothing but genuine feeling. The language of the emotions and the impulses of the human heart never change (26 March 1854).”
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
― The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
“Modern love is complicated, 複雜, a term that is even more complicated in Chinese, used as it is for anything too difficult to explain, tackle or resolve, much like the state of our city in these times. Umbrellas foster revolutions and filibustering passes for a political process. To be 複雜 is almost to deny resolution. Perhaps we are afraid of the possible outcome, and to deny ... what is it we deny? Accountability? Fault? Responsibility?”
― Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy to a City
― Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy to a City
“Our society is much more alienated from the theology than it is from the philosophy of Christianity. As our religious beliefs have become less strong and our view of the life hereafter less clear, morality has become more concerned with the legitimacy of material needs and pleasures. This is the idea that I think the followers of Saint-Simon expressed by saying that the flesh must be rehabilitated. It is probably the same tendency that, for some time now, appears in the writings and in the doctrines of our moral philosophers.”
― The European Revolution & Correspondence With Gobineau
― The European Revolution & Correspondence With Gobineau
“it’s far better to be uncomfortably uncertain than comfortably wrong. In the end, it’s the confused apes—the connoisseurs of uncertainty—that transform the world.”
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
― Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
“We might flatter ourselves that we represent an improvement on animals. But all we gained was the knowledge of death, an incurable wound in our intimacy with the world.”
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
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