"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."

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Evan Parker

#Philosophical Quotes #Paradox Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.”
“Sex is hardly ever just about sex.”
“When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!”
“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported...”

Source : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press
“The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.”

Source : "Sculptures that engage your heart - and expand your mind". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2011.
“That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.”
“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.”
“For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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