98 Quote by Michel de Certeau Download Open image “It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.” — Michel de Certeau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare 98 Definitions Footsteps Giving Pedestrianism Space Walking
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom.… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Walking can become an opportunity to move the body easily, graciously, and freely while drawing within to the non-dimensional ease, grace, and freedom that… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“significance of the foot than modern languages. Human action consists of spatial forward movement to a goal.”2 Old Testament wisdom and poetry frequently use… — Robert Saucy 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
“Don't ever think that what my Son chose to do didn't cost us dearly. Love always leaves a significant mark," she stated softly and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image