Prophets of disaster always materialize, in the manner of ghoulish onlookers, seemingly from nowhere, at a grisly accident.
Positivism, n. A philosophy that makes one less and less positive.
Marxism tamed revolution by rendering it “scientific”, inevitable, a matter of the right ingredients in the right proportions, like chemistry. What has been tamed will be vulgarized, and it is Marx himself who is the true father of Che on a t-shirt.
Wounded honor provoked duels; wounded feelings provoke lawsuits.
Everyone can be replaced, and will be.
We repeat history because we cannot reverse it.
Complexity, randomness, inspiration, unconscious process — we bestow names as if they conferred understanding.
Revolution is for an imagined future, and revolt, on which it depends, for an imagined past.
To act requires a certain lack of imagination.
The only way to escape the thrall of a philosopher is to read him.