« All Drifting Away Quotes · Michel de Certeau's Page

Drifting Away Quotes by Michel de Certeau

1 Drifting Away quote by Michel de Certeau

First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions…

More Quotes by Michel de Certeau

Michel de Certeau has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a…
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these…
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like…
An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able…
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and…
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

See all 24 quotes by Michel de Certeau »

More Drifting Away Quotes

Popular Drifting Away quotes from across the collection:

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional… — Ralph Marston
I think you have a deeply anxious leadership in China that knows its legitimacy is drifting away, that’s sending its [personal] money… — Larry Diamond
I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when… — Michelle Branch
I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that.… — Robert Smith
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of… — Arthur Golden
My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like… — Wendelin Van Draanen
First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can… — Michel de Certeau
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn… — Jeanette Winterson
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one… — Eleanor Catton
When you find that you are drifting away in your own thoughts, gently bring your focus to listening. — Senoraroy
Cant you see I'm drifting away? wishing I went away? — Patience
Drifting so far away.... people acting as if every things ok slowly fading bit by bit in this world I was never… — Im Nothing

See all Drifting Away Quotes »

Browse Michel de Certeau Quotes by Category