"What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,) is the ideology from which it is born, in which it bathes, from which it detaches itself as art, and which it alludes."

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Source : Louis Althusser (2008). “On Ideology”, Verso Books

Louis Althusser

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“But not all of them are decorated to the same level of taste.”
“Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.”
“There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.”
“We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.”
“If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.”
“My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff”
“Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.”
“God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.”

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