Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any…

Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate…

— Joshua Foer

“So why bother investing in one’s memory in an age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one I received…

— Joshua Foer

“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We’re all just a bundle…

— Joshua Foer

“To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.”

— Nicholas Carr

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

— Elie Wiesel

“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember...No lasting joke, invention, insight, or…

— Joshua Foer

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to…

— Henry Sidgwick

Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers…

— Brian Weiss

For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian…

— Allen W. Wood

“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was…

— David Weber

Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the…

— Lewis Mumford

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human…

— Charles A. Reich

Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon