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“Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.”
Source : "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 286, 1949 - 1957.
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“The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among prizes, it is surely his [Bob Dylan] due.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
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“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”
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“The thing I wondered about so much as a young artist, particularly when things weren't going well and I was really struggling, was, "Will I know when to give up? Will I know when I've suffered enough rejection? Will I know when to get out?"”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.”
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“Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.”
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“The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.”
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“My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.”
