"Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan conditionâ€”hyper-densityâ€”without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion."

-- Rem Koolhaas

#Culture Quotes #Manhattan Quotes #Splendor Quotes

“Life is so fast and it can change in an instant.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“God dwells within you, as you.”
“There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.”

Source : Wendy Beckett (1995). “Meditations on peace”
“Meditation results in marvels.”
“I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.”
“Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.”
“What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.”
“Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.”

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