“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
Malcolm Gladwell book Blink
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Source: Cuando la escuela dejó de pensar. By José Baroja. (2026b, mayo 25). Le Monde Diplomatique. https://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/cuando-la-escuela-dejo-de-pensar-por-jose-baroja.html
“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
Malcolm Gladwell book Blink
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“If the meaning of life is futility, human longevity loses its luster.”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.”
Zaman Ali (1993) Pakistani philosopher
"Humanity", Ch.VII "Humanity: A Way Forward", Part VIII
W. Cleon Skousen book The Naked Communist
The Naked Communist (1958)
Dinanath Batra (1930) Indian school teacher
On the effect of western culture on Indian educations, as quoted in " Dinanath Batra targets foreign universities in new book http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141028/nation-current-affairs/article/dinanath-batra-targets-foreign-universities-new-book" Deccan Chronicle (28 October 2014)
Václav Havel book Disturbing the Peace
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 11
“Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
20 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)