“The barbarian either totally mocks or totally worships.
Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.”
― Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección
Civilization is a smile that discreetly combines irony and respect.”
― Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección
“A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he’s concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“When Famous Shoes finished his song he noticed that the young white man was asleep. During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings. Perhaps even then the song he had just sung was working in the young man’s dreams; perhaps as he grew older he would learn to trust mysteries and not fear them. Many white men could not trust things unless they could be explained; and yet the most beautiful things, such as the trackless flight of birds, could never be explained.”
― Comanche Moon
― Comanche Moon
“In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.”
― Don Colacho's Aphorisms
― Don Colacho's Aphorisms
“The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
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