"The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization."

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Source : "Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty", by Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.

Carl Schmitt

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“Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.”

Source : "Best of the West". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.
“Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.”
“It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!”
“A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.”
“You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?”

Source : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
“Go so deep into yourself, you speak for everyone.”
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”
“My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.”

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