"The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear."

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Source : Harold Adams Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.321, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Harold Innis

#Eye Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.”
“Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.”
“Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.”
“Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.”
“When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our lives, and I started picturing myself majoring in dance at college traveling around with a contemporary dance company, and it didn't excite me as I thought it would all those years. I was just thinking about the things that I loved most about dance, which was entertaining and telling a story, and that's when I kind of opened my eyes again to acting.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
“After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.”
“Changing my name was traumatic for me.”

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