Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels
«La ciencia ficción se presta a subvertir cualquier statu quo mediante la imaginación. Burócratas y políticos, que no pueden permitirse cultivar la imaginación, tienden a asumir que todo son pistolas de rayos y tonterías graciosas para críos».
Conversations are an algorithm for randomness….They get you out of the maze of your mind.
When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind?
If we remove screens from our lives (and fashion), how could you say that we are not in the 70s?
Vivir sin filosofar es, propiamente, tener los ojos cerrados, sin tratar de abrirlos jamás
Los hombres necesitados no son hombres libres
escribir para rebelarse sin provecho a pesar de la derrota ya prevista
If a man, without exercising effort and without altering his standpoint on reading, hearing, or seeing another man’s work, experiences a mental condition which unites him with that man and with other people who also partake of that work of art, then the object evoking that condition is a work of art.
Art is a bridge across eras, cultures, and lifetimes — a kind of immortality