46 quotes found
“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
“Languages are not strangers to on another.”
“No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity.”
“How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!”
“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
“Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.”
“O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relation...”
“As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.”
“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us without being already shot through with explanation. In other words, by no...”
“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of me...”
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.”
“Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.”
“Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.”
“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”
“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the trul...”
“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
“And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. experts will bear me out when I say that it is the...”
“The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.”
