"A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context."

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Source : "Ideology and Utopia". Book by Karl Mannheim, 1936.

Karl Mannheim

#Knowledge Quotes #Character Quotes #Historical Quotes

“apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.”
“I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.”
“In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.”
“It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.”
“There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.”

Source : "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.
“I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.144, Macmillan
“I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.”

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