Literary

“Memory is threatening to replace history in an era saturated with memory. This is bad news. Memory and history are notionally opposites: memory is individual, partial and subjective; history is collective and aspires to be comprehensive and objective. Memory and history are also complementary: history gives sense to memory; memory is a tool, an ingredient, a part of history. But memory is not history.”
― Javier Cercas, El impostor

“A major section of modern art and poetry unconsciously guides us in the direction of madness; and, indeed, for the modern man there is no other way. Only madness is inaccessible to the machine.”
― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

“Sunlight shining on the fur of a golden monkey…”
― Philip Pullman, Northern Lights

“...history is scarcely capable of preserving the memory of anything except myths.”
― Gustave Le Bon