“‘The Civilized’ murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.”
~ Charles Fourier; french utopian socialist and philosopher.
“You live in a deranged age – more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, Mankind has not the faintest idea of who He is or what He is doing.”
~ Walker Percy; american author and philosopher.
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest of intelligence…”
~ Edgar Allen Poe; american author, critic, and poet.
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”
~ Truman Capote; american author, journalist and critic.
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
~ Albert Camus; french author, journalist and philosopher.
“smart people don’t exist… we alternate certain stupiditys.”
~ deacon khet; american poet, philosopher and murderer of classical literature…
“Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.”
~ Theophile Gautier; french poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art and literary critic.
“The text is a product in the sense that it is an output, something that can be recorded and studied, having a certain construction that can be represented in systematic terms. It is a process in the sense of a continuous process of semantic choice, a movement through the network of meaning potential, with each set of choices constituting the environment for a further set.”
-said in 1985 as cited in: Xueyan Yang (2010) Modelling Text As Process. p.20
~ M.A.K. Halliday; british linguist.
“Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall despair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.”
~ William Saroyan; armenian-american dramatist and author.
“We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.”
~William Hazlitt; british writer, critic and philosopher.