#isa

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#behind #civilization #culture #disappear #existence

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#brief #brief moment #death #disappear #endless

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair. ↗

— Evan Thomas

#blair #comparison #did #disappear #down

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#disappeared #everything #extreme #figure #his

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#develop #disappears #furnished #furniture #goal

The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#athlete #disabled #fact #feeling #greatest

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#disasters #example #falling #labour #only

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality. ↗

— Spencer Tracy

#acting #back #become #changing #craft

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#bricks #fact #fragments #had #improvisation

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#been #capital #established #even #features