"One is a socialist because one used to……" — Michel de Certeau
"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 paying."
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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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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
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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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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly…
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in…
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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept…
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I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that…
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The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement…
— Marianne Moore
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every…
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