"Now we must learn to judge a society…" — Jacques Attali
"Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds..."
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11 Quotes by Jacques Attali
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What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this…
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What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.
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Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.
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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world…
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Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.
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The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human…
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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.
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In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is…
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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world…
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Fetishized as a commodity, music is illustrative of the evolution of our entire society: deritualize a social form, repress an…
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More Contemplation Quotes
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He…
— Isaac Asimov
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation…
— Teresa of Avila
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
— Randolph Bourne
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
— Jacob Bronowski
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects…
— Samuel Alexander
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of…
— John Jay Chapman
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
— Diane Arbus
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