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“In order to produce anything, we must have a vision of what it is possible for us to do or to be.”

— Linda L. Williams, Williams, Linda L,234, 234

“The aim is to participate in unconcealment, bringing it to our awareness, heightening our sensitivity and responsiveness to it.”

— Mark A. Wrathall , Heidegger and Unconcealment

“But if one imagines a world in which humans never appeared with their contingently evolved visual system, then there is no basis for assigning colors to any object. Why should a surface with a given surface spectral reflectance be called 'yellow'? Without reference to the particular characteristics…”

— Ronald N. Giere, Scientific Perspectivism

“Humans are trichromats, which is to say, their retinas contain three different types of receptors (called cones for their shape when viewed through a microscope) with three different pigments sensitive to three different ranges of the visible spectrum. These three pigments, conventionally labeled S(…”

— Ronald N. Giere, Scientific Perspectivism

“My analysis of practice points to a situatedness and path dependence of knowledge production.”

— Andrew Pickering, e Mangle of Practice: Time,Agency,and Science,The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science

“Newspapers are an essential element and symbol of the peculiar spirit and tendency which characterizes our civilization. There is no place to which they do not penetrate; no object which they may not serve; no description of person to whom they are not welcome.”

— William Empson, Literature and Mass Culture

“Actually it is the Press, more specifically the daily newspaper...which makes Christianity impossible.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, socrates.berkeley.edu

“The modern writer... accordingly writes for the galleries or, in other words, for that part of the audience which is least capable of judging, but the nosiest in declaring judgment.”

— Leigh Hunt, Literature and Mass Culture

“The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Literature and Mass Culture

“Talking a lot of nonsense, or even writing it, will kill neither body nor soul, everything will remain unchanged.But nonsense, placed before the eyesHas a magical right:Because it fetters the sensesThe mind remains a vassal.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Literature and Mass Culture

“In Silicon Valley, the information that wants to be free is almost always the information that belongs to someone else.”

— Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

“To Google, Auletta's book is just a series of ones and zeros—and not very many of them, compared with a movie. To Auletta, those ones and zeros were exceptionally expensive to create—at least in terms of time—since the technology that has revolutionized the cost of distributing text hasn't dramatica…”

— Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

“The real conflict online is between the media companies that fund much of the entertainment we read, see, and hear and the technology firms that want to distribute their content—legally or otherwise.”

— Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

“Now something that you formerly loved as a truth or probability strikes you as an error; you shed it and fancy that this represents a victory for your reason. But perhaps this error was as necessary for you then, when you were still a different person —you are always a different person —as are all y…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“One day, and probably soon, we need some recognition of what above all is lacking in our big cities: quiet and wide, expansive places for reflection. Places with long, high-ceilinged cloisters for bad or all too sunny weather where no shouting or noise of carriages can reach and where good manners w…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“What good is a book that does not even carry us beyond all books?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“He is utterly without envy, but there is no merit in that, for he wants to conquer a country that nobody has possessed and scarcely anyone has even seen.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“We solve those riddles from which we suffer, but not those which please us.”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“Your Hell is made up of all the things that you always ejected from your sanctuary with a curse and a kick of the foot. When you step into your own Hell, never think that you come like one suffering in beauty, or as a proud pariah, but you come like a stupid and curious fool and gaze in wonder at th…”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)

“The soul demands your folly, not your wisdom.”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition (Philemon)