#ted

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#devoted #fifty #i #life #professional

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#change #claim #does #future #history

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists. ↗

— Kathleen Battle

#because #both #christopher #experiences #gifted

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #committed #effort #evil #fatally

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#artist #express #first #man #men

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#consider #exists #fancy #i #me

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#asks #because #better #catholicity #celebrated

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#behind #cat #departed #god #grin

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year. ↗

— Michael Bay

#biggest #cool #created #movie #out

But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn't really change that much from one generation to another. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#another #boots #change #either #exactly