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Claude Bernard
“It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.”
Claude Bernard

Noam Chomsky
“I got some funny reactions, a lot of irate reactions, as if I were somehow taking people's fun away from them. I have nothing against sports. I like to watch a good basketball game and that sort of thing. On the other hand, we have to recognise that the mass hysteria about spectator sports plays a significant role. First of all, spectator sports make people more passive, because you're not doing them; you're watching somebody doing them. Secondly, they engender jingoist and chauvinist attitudes, sometimes to quite an extreme degree. I saw something in the newspapers just a day or two ago about how high-school teams are now so antagonistic and passionately committed to winning at all costs that they had to abandon the standard handshake before or after the game. These kids can't even do civil things like greeting one another because they're ready to kill one another. It's spectator sports that engender those attitudes, particularly when they're designed to organise a community to be hysterically committed to their gladiators. That's very dangerous, and it has lots of deleterious effects.”
Noam Chomsky, The Quotable Chomsky

Christa Wolf
“Tutt’a un tratto mi accorsi che il cuore mi faceva molto male. Sarei tornata ad alzarmi già domani, con un cuore rianimato, che il dolore riusciva a raggiungere. Tu pensi, Arisbe, che l’essere umano non possa vedere se stesso.
– È così. Non lo sopporta. Ha bisogno di una raffigurazione che gli sia estranea.
– E in questo non cambierà mai niente? Sempre e solo il ripetersi della stessa cosa? Autoestraneazione, idoli, odio?
– Non lo so. Ecco quello che so: ci sono buchi nel tempo. Questo ne è uno, qui e ora. Noi non possiamo lasciare che passi inutilizzato. E qui, finalmente, ebbi il mio «Noi». Quella notte sognai, dopo tante notti desolate e senza sogni. Vidi colori, rosso e nero, vita e morte. Trapassavano l’uno nell’altro, non lottavano tra loro come perfino in sogno mi sarei aspettata. Mutando di continuo la loro forma, di continuo producevano nuovi motivi, che riuscivano incredibilmente belli.
Erano come acqua, come un mare. Nel cui centro vidi un’isola luminosa, alla quale, nel sogno – volavo, sì; sì, volavo! – mi avvicinai rapidamente. Che c’era in quel luogo. Quale essere. Un uomo? Un animale? Riluceva come di notte riluce solo Enea. Che gioia.”
Christa Wolf

Amanda Palmer
“There’s a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen.

When you are looked at, your eyes can be closed. You suck energy, you steal the spotlight. When you are seen, your eyes must be open, and you are seeing and recognizing your witness. You accept energy and you generate energy. You create light.

One is exhibitionism, the other is connection.

Not everybody wants to be looked at.

Everybody wants to be seen.”
Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Amanda Palmer
“Asking for help with shame says:
You have the power over me.
Asking with condescension says:
I have the power over you.
But asking for help with gratitude says:
We have the power to help each other.
Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

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