"The only freedom supposed to be left to……" — Michel de Certeau
"The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual."
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24 Quotes by Michel de Certeau
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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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More Distributes Quotes
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He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
— James M. Barrie
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits…
— Egon Friedell
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The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments…
— Atul Gawande
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Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making…
— Louis Berkhof
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A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does…
— Samuel Chadwick
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Nature distributes her favors unequally.
— George Sand
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The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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...the title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due…
— Pope Dionysius
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Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single…
— Francisco Goya
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The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate…
— George Eastman
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