"Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting."

-- Michel Foucault

#Cutting Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love”
“They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.”

Source : "Gateway". Book by Frederik Pohl, April 1977.
“...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.”
“Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.”

Source : 1985 La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.
“I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.”

Source : Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited
“How would you like to find out how good my right is?”
“The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left to convert into money.”

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