Strahinja Erakovic Quotes & Sayings

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. "Stupidity" is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information she or he puts out, commits him or herself to taking in no more information than she or he can put out. (Not to be confused with ignorance, or lack of data.) Since such a situation is impossible to achieve because of the nature of mind/perception itself in its relation to the functioning body, a continuing downward spiral of functionality and/or informative dissemination results,' and he understood why! 'The process, however, can be reversed,' the voice continued, 'at any time. — Samuel R. Delany

Ever think about the thousands of people you pass by as you drive down the street? Ever wonder, as you take a glimpse into their lives, how they feel, at that moment? Maybe even what they could be going through in their life? But what does it matter? To you, their lives mean nothing. They don't concern you. To them, their lives are everything, the only world they know. — Anonymous

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. — Joyce Carol Oates

Yes, a man in the nineteenth century must and morally ought to be pre-eminently a characterless creature; a man of character, an active man is pre-eminently a limited creature. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you. — Charles Bukowski

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — Martin Luther

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve. — Michel Onfray

I don't have time for a stroke! — Jill Bolte Taylor