Absence Quote by Michel de Certeau Download Open image “An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.” — Michel de Certeau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absence Gaps Time
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence — Richard Burdon Haldane Copy Share Image
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“A meaning without a cause or a purpose, is just another word without a meaning.” — Saleem Durrani Copy Share Image
The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“His [the pedestrian's] elevation transfigures him into a voyeur. It puts his at a distance. It transforms the bewitching world by which one was… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
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… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility--space itself--to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
