
« Il faut défendre la société » — Cours au Collège de France, 1976, Cours du 14 janvier 1976
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
« Il faut défendre la société » — Cours au Collège de France, 1976, Cours du 14 janvier 1976
Journal d’un génie adolescent, Les moustaches radar, 1960
Les Schizophrènes, 1980, Schizogrammes
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
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If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.
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Ich will aber Musik machen, wie ich sie für gut erkenne, oder gar keine
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“J'entends à jamais le bruit de ma naissance.”
C'est moi la Vérité. Pour une philosophie du christianisme, 1996