Flusser Towards A Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're
not the first to die. — Simon Van Booy

I'm not interested in whether you've sat with the great; I'm interested in whether you've sat with the broken. — Unknown

Mourning the dead led the living, as it often does, to come to terms with their own existence. Following Joyce, Benjamin sensed that this quintessentially modern trauma (the steam engine, that machine of progress, can also be a machine of mass destruction) presaged what the new century held in store. — David Kishik

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen. — Hugh Hopper

At that moment, I hated dating more than doing my laundry — Meredith Schorr

In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed. — Rick Smolan

Count only on those who believe in your dreams, because our greatness comes in our darkest moments — Joshua Okello

You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever. The living are not what they were, the dead die again and again, and at last for good. — Saul Bellow

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit. — Lamar Odom

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. — John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age. — Jeff Bridges