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Chris Lavergne

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4,096 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Why is it better? How much better? Better for whom? Better for how long? ”
— Jan Conradi, Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision
Tagged: Work Strategies
“Do not deny history. American culture is based on novelty, on difference; Europeans are not interested in new ways as much as they are interested in refining a concept which has existed through the centuries. It is a continuing evolution, not a revolution. ”
— Massimo Vignelli, Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision
Tagged: America, Conservation, Evolution, History
“ Unplanned, unanticipated encounters are central to democracy itself. Such encounters often involve topics and points of view that people have not sought out and perhaps find quite irritating. They are important partly to ensure against fragmentation and extremism, which are predictable outcomes of any situation in which like-minded people speak only with themselves.”
— Cass R. Sunstein, Republic.com
Tagged: Extremism, Freedom of Expression, Thought Catalog
“One reason why false and offensive speech is permitted in most liberal democracies is precisely because the best answer to bad speech is good speech, rather than censorship.”
— Alan Dershowitz, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
Tagged: Freedom of Speech, Thought Catalog
“We're like the man who climbed on a chair and declared he was a little closer to the moon.”
— Hubert Dreyfus, What Computers Can't Do
Tagged: Progress
“Although everybody started his life by inserting himself into the human world through action and speech, nobody is the author or producer of his own life story... Somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense of the word, namely, its actor and sufferer, but nobody is its author.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition: Second Edition
Tagged: Authorship, Death of The Author
“The moment we want to say who somebody is, our very vocabulary leads us astray into saying what he is; we get entangled in a description of qualities he necessarily shares with others like him; we begin to describe a type or a 'character' in the old meaning of the word, with the result that his specific uniqueness escapes us.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition: Second Edition
Tagged: Identity
“Power is actualized only where word and deed have not parted company, where words are not empty and deeds not brutal, where words are not used to veil intentions but to disclose realities, and deeds are not used to violate and destroy but to establish relations and create new realities.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition: Second Edition
Tagged: Power, Theory and Practice
“Action reveals itself fully only to the storyteller, that is, to the backward glance of the historian, who indeed always knows better what it was all about than the participants.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
Tagged: History, Theory and Practice
“Philosophers have merely interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”
— Karl Marx , marxists.org
Tagged: Theory and Practice