Dan Browne

“freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
― theodor w. adorno

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“The word ‘wrong’ originally meant wrung, twisted. ‘Abstract’ means to pull away from. ‘Human’ meant the soil (humus). ‘Consider’ meant known, con, the stars, sidera. All our abstract words were once metaphors. The boldness of metaphor is a result of limited vocabulary… As language became less crude it became less beautiful, more refined, more abstract—and metaphor became either impossible or ornamental and unnecessary, except in rare instances.”
― Tom Dilworth

“Classification is a condition of knowledge, not knowledge itself, and knowledge in turn dissolves classification.”
― Adorno and Horkheimer