Charles Frankel famous quotes

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
-- Charles Frankel

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Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
-- Charles Frankel

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Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.
-- Charles Frankel

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The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.
-- Charles Frankel

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Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.