"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not."

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Source : Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

Raoul Vaneigem

#Taken Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a manâ€™s breadth, with his heart.”
“If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”
“great villains make great movies.”
“Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.162, Penguin
“I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty.”
“So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”
“Never insult anyone by accident.”
“Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things...so that astonishing miracles thereby occur.”

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