“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.”
~Martin Heidigger; german philosopher and author.
“The work of this emotion requires people who throw themselves actively into what is becoming, to which they themselves belong.”
~Ernst Bloch; german philosopher.
“The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.”
~Sarah Paulson; american actress.
“Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!”
~Paul Goodman; american author and public intellectual.
“I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me.”
~Chan Marshall “Cat Power”; american singer-songwriter and musician.
“Memory produces hope in the same way amnesia produces despair.”
~Walter Brueggeman; american scholar and theologian.
“The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.”
~Rebecca Solnit; american author.
“Experience by itself is not science.”
~Edmund Husserl; german philosopher who established Phenomenology.
“The only real elegance is in the mind, if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.”
~ Diana Vreeland; american magazine editor and fashion journalist.
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
~ Issac Asimov; american author and professor of biochemistry.