#ill

We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#baudrillard #sociology #dreams

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change. ↗

— Amber Valletta

#change #heart #meet #mind #where

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#fragile #instrument #less #making #nations

The day will happen whether or not you get up. ↗

— John Ciardi

#get #happen #up #whether #will

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#dean #ended #fired #friendly #from time to time

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#activities #could #did #early #engaging

The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#did #everything #experience #honed #i

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#bother #kill #killing #late #since

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#incapacity #kill #may #our #ourselves

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#express #grow #homelessness #housing #i