Parszywek Quotes & Sayings

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage. — Maria Konnikova

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop. — Herbert Marcuse

I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters. — Barbara Kingsolver

If you chose to go into someone else's reality, you had to be willing to walk. There were no shortcuts. — Alice Sebold

You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is. — Santosh Kalwar

Present-day democratic structures just cannot collect and process the relevant data fast enough, and most voters don't understand biology and cybernetics well enough to form any pertinent opinions. Hence traditional democratic politics is losing control of events, and is failing to present us with meaningful visions of the future. — Yuval Noah Harari