Separability Quotes & Sayings

The very nature of materiality is an entanglement. Matter itself is always already open to, or rather entangled with, the "Other." The intra-actively emergent "parts" of phenomena are coconstituted. Not only subjects but also objects are permeated through and through with their entangled kin; the other is not just in one's skin, but in one's bones, in one's belly, in one's heart, in one's nucleus, in one's past and future. This is as true for electrons as it is for brittlestars as it is for the differentially constituted human . . . What is on the other side of the agential cut is not separate from us--agential separability is not individuation. Ethics is therefore not about right response to a radically exterior/ized other, but about responsibility and accountability for the lively relationalities of becoming of which we are a part. — Karen Barad

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them. — Marian Seldes

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks - so it sounded. — Virginia Woolf

Humans can think inhuman thoughts. — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes, to help someone you love, you have to commit a felony. But, you don't want to go to prison for that. Hey, dude, what are you in for? Armed robbery? Murder? And then, you have to say, Love. And, that's definitely going to get you, you know, picked last for prison kick ball. — Christopher Titus

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe. — Dee Hock

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment. — Mark Helprin

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are. — Terry Pratchett

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — Vance Havner

Ware the cold, human. Ware the ice that grips. The frost that silences. — Ian C. Esslemont