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“Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest?”
― The Buried Giant
― The Buried Giant
“Taste, we assume, is innate, reflexive, immediate, involuntary, but we also speak of it as something to be acquired. It is a private, subjective matter, a badge of individual sovereignty, but at the same time a collectively held property, bundling us into clubs, cults, communities, and sociological stereotypes.”
― Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
― Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
“To assert as truth that which has no meaning is the core mission of humanity.”
― The Vision, Vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man
― The Vision, Vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man
“Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. "Critical thinking" may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood—but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant.”
― Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
― Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
“Parents sacrifice their lives for their children. Then children become parents and sacrifice their own lives. And so all is sacrificed and nothing is gained. Life, then becomes the pursuit of an unobtainable purpose by absurd means.”
― The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast
― The Vision, Vol. 2: Little Better Than a Beast
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