one of my fave descrips: "The train was empty at first, but midway a whole carload of commuting high schoolstudents piled in and we were plunged into their commotion, their shouting and dandruff and...conversations and sexual urges with no outlet. This went on for thirty minutes until they disappeared all at the same station. Once again, the train was empty, with no voice to be heard.
A Common Faith John Dewey New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1934 pg 13 In reality, the only thing that can be said to be "proved" is the existence of some complex of conditions that...transfer of idealizing imagination, thought and emotion to natural human relations would not signify the destruction of churches that now exist. It would rather offer the means for a recovery of vitality.
pg 19-20: There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes cannons of taste and value...in his readers' eyes; he neither tries nor wants to unsettle already firm convictions. pg 67: The Orientalist stage, as I have been calling it, becomes a system of moral and epistemological rigor.
A Preface to Morals Walter Lippmann New York: The MacMillan Company, 1929 pg 4: "[The modern man] may be very busy with many things, but he discovers one day that he is no longer sure they are worth...it. THe phsychological consequences are enormous, for a very great part of all human suffering lies not in the pain itself, but in the anxiety contributed by the meaning which we attached to it.
"The man in revolt is ultimatelyinexplicable. There must be an uprooting that interrupts the unfolding of history and its long series of reasons 'why', for a man 'really' to prefer the risk of death over the certainty of having to obey." Michel Foucault, "Is it Useless to Revolt?"
