Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Arise , Best , Reality
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Creativity , Experience , Good
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life – and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Ambition , Life , Madness
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Great , Life , Speed
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Artist , Grief , Work
I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth – forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Alone , Politics , Wealth
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Driven , Greed , Hypocrisy
In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time – bad news is taboo. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Land , News , Time
Existential philosophy, poetry and art – just like sadness – were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Art , Philosophy , Sadness
Today, people call each other 'guys' – this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email History , Paid , Today
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Community , Help , Media
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work – often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Culture , Life , Work
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Society , Space , Value
There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body a lot, too. It's much more physical than one would imagine because I think it's the body where the imagination lives somehow. I do feel the imagination isn't just in the brain up there. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Artist , Body , Brain
Happiness, it's a small thing – just a very little thing. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Small
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Candle , Flame , Madness
We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Breakfast , Jesus , Tree
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Light , Night , Soul
It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably – this is fundamental – but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Humans , Presence , Ways
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth – so there's two stories there. FacebookTwitterGoogle plusX Reddit Linkedin Stumbleupon Email Great , Suffering , Truth