“It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“A ideologia é a negação tácita ou efectiva da atitude e da metodologia científicas - a sua pretensa ou real «superação» do que à ciência, e só a ciência concerne; a história, enquanto ciência, nega-se ao que na ideologia se contém; o historiador, todavia, coabita com o cidadão - e como é que este se pode esquivar, como tal, às influências e às opções de carácter ideológico? A cidadania do homem-historiador anularia, pois, ou tenderia a anular, a objectividade que a sua ciência postula e exige como estatuto da sua própria existência?”
― Emigração portuguesa: sondagem histórica
― Emigração portuguesa: sondagem histórica
“You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.”
― J.G. Ballard: Quotes: Does the Future Have a Future?
― J.G. Ballard: Quotes: Does the Future Have a Future?
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