Hans Magnus Enzensberger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something
-- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#Glasses #Doe #Culture
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
-- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#Greatness #Mediocrity #Needed
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition.
-- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#Thinking #Names #Mind
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
-- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#Writing #Thinking #Looks
Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
-- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#Style #Disorientation
The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.
-- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#Moon #Reality #Cameras

I like to look at the glass half full.
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger famous quotes

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