"Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“The stadium is a part of the Yankees and the Yankees are a part of the stadium. That will never change.”
“If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.”
“A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.”
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”
“He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.”
“Youâ€™re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so itâ€™s that compression. The best code is poetry.”
“To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”
“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”

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