All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Walter Benjamin.
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.”
“Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.”
“All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.”
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
“There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the compl...”
“The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128”
“In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one per...”
“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”
“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”
“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”
“The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in their capacity for wonder at the vividness and strangeness of the particula...”
“Every living word that gives life was once without form.”
“In heart, mind, soul and spirit, we do not exist in a myriad of dissimilar forms. We are every possible form, which has existed and is yet to come. When we we enter a state of oneness, we get a sen...”
