"The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation."

-- Raoul Vaneigem

#Mean Quotes #Organization Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.”
“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.”

Source : "The Sciences of the Artificial". Book by Herbert A. Simon, p. 130, 1969.
“I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.”
“He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.”
“I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.”
“Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.”
“Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.”
“Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.”

You may also like:

Asger Jorn
Painter
Bob Black
Author
Charles Fourier
Philosopher
Etienne de La Boetie
Writer
Guy Debord
Writer
Hakim Bey
Author
Henri Lefebvre
Philosopher
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Poet
Michel Onfray
Philosopher