Posthumanism Quotes & Sayings

Somewhere out there, a higher
form of sadism won the first round.
Well, screw that. I'm not ready to be
pwned. — Clyde DeSouza

Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be someone's safety net ... I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too ... scary. — S.C. Stephens

I have been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics. We're going to do well. We're going to pick up a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday. — Marco Rubio

That's how kings are made, my brush-tailed girl - they pick a place, shove a stick in it, call themselves King and wait to see if someone gets angry about it. No one has gotten angry so far, so that makes the otters mine. — Catherynne M Valente

Prayer ... panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind. — Clyde DeSouza

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. — Samuel Johnson

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. — D.H. Lawrence

When there is real purification of the body, external and internal, there arises neglect of the body, and the idea of keeping it nice vanishes. A face which others call most beautiful will appear to the Yogi as merely animal, if there is not intelligence behind it. What the world calls a very common face he regards as heavenly, if the spirit shines behind it. This thirst after body is the great bane of human life. So the first sign of the establishment of purity is that you do not care to think you are a body. — Swami Vivekananda

I'm so sorry, bright little thing."

"For what, my lord?:" I asked, my voice small and lost in the dim air.

His words caught in his throat as he answered. "For not making the world a place where you could choose to fight for yourself. — Lesley Livingston

All things pass, but the poor remain. We are the people of the Apokalis. Tomorrow there will be more of us. — Indra Sinha

In this life we are all fighting to be. Be something, be someone. Be rich, be happy, be successful. It's not enough to just BE. — Jennifer Calvert

Posthumanism offers fluidity and freedom, and a metaphysic daring enough to think a whole world into life. — Bruce Sterling

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4. — Ruth Ozeki

Maybe that's how great warriors do it. Carelessly, not wracking their minds with the consequences. — Neal Stephenson

What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality? — Clyde DeSouza

If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival. — N. Katherine Hayles

EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS ... — Clyde DeSouza

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins. — Kinky Friedman

And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure. — Thomas Merton