Stengers Isabelle Quotes & Sayings

If learning to think is learning to resist a future that presents itself as obvious, plausible, and normal, we cannot do so either by evoking an abstract future, from which everything subject to our disapproval has been swept aside, or by referring to a distant cause that we could and should imagine to be free of any compromise. To resist a likely future in the present is to gamble that the present still provides substance for resistance, that it is populated by practices that remain vital even if none of them has escaped the generalized parasitism that implicates them all. — Isabelle Stengers

I'm starting to think you love reading more than you love me," Babyface playfully told her. "It's — Twyla T.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean. — Terry Pratchett

A lot of people have it in for me. It's practically a school sport. — Nenia Campbell

The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love. — Marty Rubin

Do not marvel brothers if the world hates you, the world rejected and rebelled against God and His truth. — Auliq Ice

Memory is satisfied desire. — Carlos Fuentes

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. — Seneca The Younger

Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided. — Haruki Murakami