Avital Ronell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
-- Avital Ronell

#Real #Clear #Not Perfect
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
-- Avital Ronell

#Running #Home #Winning
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.
-- Avital Ronell

#Stupidity #Moral #Pathology
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
-- Avital Ronell

#Thinker #Delicate #Probing
Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.
-- Avital Ronell

#Speech #Speak

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.
When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Avital Ronell famous quotes

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