Consciousness seems to be a mirror in which sometimes the sky, sometimes the ground comes toward the spectator. Paul Valéry
Les mer»I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, «Speech at Chicago, Illinois» (July 10, 1858), p. 502.
Les mer»«Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.» The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, «Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others» (April 6, 1859), p. 376.
Les mer»Looking back at the entire nineteenth century of Russian culture – shattered, finished, unrepentable, which no one must repeat, which no one dare repeat – I wish to hail the century, as one would hail settled weather, and I see in the unity lent it by the measureless cold which welded decades together into one […]
Les mer»Mirrors are not more silent nor the creeping dawn more secretive; in the moonlight, you are that panther we catch sight of from afar. By the inexplicable workings of a divine law, we look for you in vain; More remote, even, than the Ganges or the setting sun, yours is the solitude, yours the secret. […]
Les mer»The unforseen itself is in the process of transformation, and what is unforseen in the modern world has become almost unlimited. The imagination itself fails in the face of it … Instead of, as in the past, playing an honest card gamel with fate, knowing the rules, knowing the numer of cards and face cards, […]
Les mer»Countries with welfare states that fight only to defend conservative positions will in the end be swept away. Contemporary historical reality, more unstable than it has been for decades and giving indications of great changes to come, is so deeply out of phase with developed societies’ desire for peace that those societies’ grasp of events […]
Les mer»«You are surprised to find so much premonition of things to come in my work. The artist is simply a seismograph who registers disaster in advance. This phenomenon is found not only in my own work.» Karl Hofer, 1947
Les mer»Den som vil gjøre seg til en engel, blir til et beist. Andre Glucksmann siterer Blaise Pascal
Les mer»Thus the world is like an oilpress: under pressure. If you are the dregs of the oil you are carried away through the sewer; if you are genuine oil you will remain in the vessel. But to be under pressure is inevitable. Observe the dregs, observe the oil. Pressure takes place ever in the world, […]
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