“The wonderful thing about language is that it promotes its own oblivion: my eyes follow the lines on the paper, and from the moment I am caught up in their meaning, I lose sight of them.”— Maurice Merleau Ponty, amazon.com
“Americans are really good at acute compassion, but pretty bad at chronic empathy. We, without question, haul strangers out of a raging flood, give blood, give food, give shelter. But we are lousy at legislating safe, sustainable communities, at eldercare, at accessible streets and buildings. It is t…”— Sigrid Ellis, twitter.com
“As if writing were, like love, the offspring of a cloud. When you touch it, it melts.”— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com
“Since every discovery changes nature, the destination of an object or a phenomenon constitutes a surrealist fact.”— Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, amazon.com
“Truth, as the clearing and concealing of what is, happens in being composed, as a poet composes a poem.”— Martin Heidegger, sites.google.com
“The ways of reflection constantly are changing, according to the station along the way at which the journey begins, according to the distance along the way that it traverses, according to the vision that opens up while underway into what is question worthy.”— Martin Heidegger, amazon.com
“Objects can’t be presented directly because they are not inert but parts of a process, and the relations between things are important than the things themselves.”— Jacob Korg, amazon.com
“For models come and go. Not that the old ones turn out necessarily to be untrue. They may remain entirely true while they become quite unfruitful. Models provide analogies which are of their very nature limited, and, as this dialogue which makes human society what it is moves on, the models once fou…”— Walter Ong, amazon.com