"Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless……" — Michel de Certeau
"Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others."
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24 Quotes by Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau has 24 quotes on this site.
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The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion…
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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks…
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded…
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An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
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A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless…
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It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of…
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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most…
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
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The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become…
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As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as…
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More Countless Quotes
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction…
— Albert Bandura
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
— Wade Boggs
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Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to…
— Eli Broad
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections,…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
— Robert Burns
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But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen,…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.
— Tupac Shakur
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Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more…
— Unknown Author
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We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands…
— Ronald Reagan
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