Quotes

[trentk]

Validate was the wrong word, I guess. What I meant was, does the philosopher look too hard at something that simply isn't there? I mean, really, Sarty as flauner?

As long as such a way of doing street style photography can be ushered in, I'm indifferent as to whether or not its currently there. Hyperstition.

[endorphinz]

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about

*****

[endersgame]

"The first time I created a camera obscura, after I had realized how long I had to sit there to adjust my eyes to the darkness, to see the projection, which is about 20 to 30 minutes–I thought I'd seen God."

Vera Lutter

http://www.gagosian.com/artists/vera-lutter

[laughed]

And now....deep thoughts.....with Jack Handey.....

“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.”

[endorphinz]

narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized

Father Tom Murphy (William S. Burroughs), Drugstore Cowboy

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

"Pay Red-Pay back the red you stole for your lying
flags and your Coca-Cola signs-Pay that red back to
penis and blood and sun-

- William S. Burroughs Nova Express(1964)

[Stijn]

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

~Martha Graham

[interest1]

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Let go or be dragged.
. . . . . . . . . - Zen proverb

[Acéphale]

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

-- Franz Kafka

[Verdandi]

German words hang like lead weights on the German language, I had said to Gambetti, and constantly drag the mind down to a level that can only be harmful to it. German thought and German speech soon become paralyzed under the intolerable weight of the language, which suppresses any thought before it can find expression. Under the German language, I said, German thought had developed only with difficulty and never come to full efflorescence, as Romance thought had under the Romance languages—as witness the centuries of effort that the Germans had invested in their thinking. Although I have a higher regard for Spanish than for Italian, no doubt because I am more familiar with it, Gambetti that morning illustrated yet again the lightness, effortlessness, and infinite versatility of Italian, which bears the same relation to German as a child reared in complete freedom, in a happy and prosperous home, bears to one who has been cowed and beaten into low cunning in the poorest of poor families. How much more highly, then, must we rate the achievements of our philosophers and writers? I asked. Every word inexorably drags their thought down, every sentence forces to the ground whatever they venture to think, and thus forces everything to the ground. That's why their philosophy and their writings are so leaden.

Thomas Bernhard - Ausloeschung, Ein Zerfall (Extinction)

[Faust]

"People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles. You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is to fuck up your life whatever way you want to."

- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

[mortalveneer]

^ in light of the possible big soda ban, one might doubt the endurance of such freedoms...

[Faust]

The quote was to mean exactly the negative reaction of these poor idiots whose health the benevolent Bloomberg is trying to protect. I'd say fuck them if it wasn't for the taxpayers shouldering the health care costs.

[mortalveneer]

I agree about the health care costs, but am not entirely sure this will have a measurable impact on obesity rates.

[Faust]

Agreed. It's a gesture. Gestures can at least spark a debate.