"Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness."

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Richard Davenport-Hines

#Enlightenment Quotes #Madness Quotes #Mistaken Quotes

“French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.”
“I'm in touch with the social networks and stuff.”
“Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.”
“Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.”
“Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you dont have mixed use, you dont have cities.”

Source : "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.
“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.”
“I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.”
“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.”

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