Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 2, Rights And Duties, p. 42.
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
“4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.”
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 7 : Passion for Form, p. 131
Context: The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it. The instantaneous way this is done shows how we are driven to construct the remainder of the scene. To fill the gaps is essential if the scene is to have meaning. That we may do this in misleading ways — at times in neurotic or paranoid ways — does not gainsay the central point. Our passion for form expresses our yearning to make the world adequate to our needs and desires, and, more important, to experience ourselves as having significance.
Address to the Harvard Alumni Association to the Class of '61, in Speeches (1913), p. 96.
1910s
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
“Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.”
Alberto Giacometti. Exhibition of sculptures, paintings, drawings. Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, N.Y.), 1948. p. 36
Source: An Aristocracy of Everyone (1992), p. 22
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Context: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.
Source: Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001), "Jesus' fraternal relocation of God", p. 64-65.
