Are.na

Your worm is your only emperor... We fat all creatures else to fat us and we fat ourselves for maggots. —Hamlet

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde

"The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth." —Umberto Eco

"In his pamphlet on Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx struck a middle path between voluntarism and structuralism when he wrote: Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they d…

"Every age remains in the memory of future generations. But every age has its own internal logic, its own structure of feeling." – J. Ugarte Tellería, 'La nueva Covadonga insurgente'

"Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home." —Martin Heidegger, 'Letter on Humanism' (1946)

"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence …

”Civilisation is a thin film across an ocean of chaos”. — Werner Herzog

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Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why rea…

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"He would reason about people’s conduct as though a man were as simple a figure as, say, two sticks laid across each other; whereas a man is much more like the sea whose movements are too complicated …

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"Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a "symptom of deficient vitality," and observed "a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in t…

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”The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.” – Bertrand Russell

"Beyond the mountains, more mountains." – Haitian proverb

Quote from Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

No-one embodied (and struggled with) this deadlock more than Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. In his dreadful lassitude and objectless rage, Cobain seemed to give wearied voice to the despondency of the gener…

"Life is very boring if you live life as it is." — Fiona Hardy

“Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.” — Calvin Coolidge

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look l…

"Thought constitutes the greatness of man. Man is a reed, the feeblest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed." — Blaise Pascal

”Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. –Emily Dickinson

Art & Fear

If you think good work is somehow synonymous with perfect work, you are headed for big trouble. Art is human; error is human; ergo, art is error. — David Bayles & Ted Orland

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Angelo Dilullo

Ursula K Le Guin

“Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the wi…

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"It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the fetters of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which t…

"It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the fetters of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which t…

"We all know the elephant in the room' — the topic that everyone knows is there, but no one talks about. But what about the mosquitoes in the room, the tiny things we sense but ignore?" — Mariana Ales…

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"The way our group does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory." — John Dewey