Mitsunori Ogasawara Quotes & Sayings

Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line. — Aaron Tippin

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. — Morris Raphael Cohen

From a letter to Barrett H.Clark, 4 May 1918(LL,II,pp.204-5):
my attitude to subjects and expressions, the angles of vision, my methods of composition will, within limits, be always changing
not because I am unstable or unpricipled but because I am free. Or perhaps it may be more exact to say, because I am always trying for freedom
within my limits ... A work of art is seldom limited to one exclusive meaning and not necessarily tending to a definite conclusion. And this for the reason that the nearer it approaches art, the more it acquires a symbolic character. — Joseph Conrad

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. — Steve Jobs

How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger. — Ray Bradbury

She noted the lack of female hardware hackers, and was enraged at the male hacker obsession with technological play and power. — Steven Levy

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move. — Nonito Donaire

What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school? — Piers Morgan

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. — Wilson Follett

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If you can sing together, you can live together. — Zubin Mehta

I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet. — Richard H.R. Penn

What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality. — Alex Sanchez