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“Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”
The Decay of Lying • Oscar Wilde“Let an understanding man imagine human nature originally produced without the sense of sight, and consider what ignorance and trouble such a defect would bring upon him, what a darkness and blindness in the soul; he will then see by that of how great importance to the knowledge of truth would be the privation of such another sense, or of two or three, should we be so deprived.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne““I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.””
Republic • Plato“The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.”
The Culture Consumers • Alvin Toffler“They’re afraid because they have never accepted themselves. A community consisting exclusively of people afraid of the unknown in themselves! They all feel that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they’re following outdated commandments; neither their religions nor their morality, nothing is suited to what we need. For a century and more, Europe has done nothing but study and build factories! They know exactly how many grams of powder it takes to kill someone, but they don’t know how to pray to God, they don’t even know how to be contented for an hour at a time.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse