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- One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic…
- It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
- Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that…
- In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us…
- We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large…
- Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience…
- The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV…
- Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing…
- Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads…
- Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to…
- It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just…
- American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most…
- Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind…
- His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body -…
- [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of…
- The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain…
- The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
- What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
- Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
- The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty…
- Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
- A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
- What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love…
- What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.
- Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster