“All our knowledge begins with the senses, priceeds then to the understanding, and ends with raisin. There is nothing higher than raisin.”
““Everything that irritates us about Iggy Azalea can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”—Jung Rapunxel, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
s/o to nothing nice to say
in which claude lévi-strauss does feet on the beach photo:
“I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions. But how long it has taken me to make up my mind to do so! It is now fifteen years since I left Brazil for the last time and all during this period I have often planned to undertake the present work but on each occasion a sort of shame and repugnance prevented me from making a start. Why, I asked myself, should I give a detailed account of so many trivial circumstances and insignificant happenings?”
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
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“From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the Orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”
with thanks to @eleemosynarylee
“The fidaï is not one of the sacrificed. To be sure, he does not shrink before the possibility of losing his life or the independence of his country, but at no moment does he choose tie dying.”