“We should not forget that the value of seeing lies in the information capacity of vision.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 9, The house group, p. 120

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Greek architect 1914–1975

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1914–1975) Greek architect

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 7, The room , p. 98

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American leadership expert

Warren Bennis, cited in: Dianna Daniels Booher (1991) Executive's portfolio of model speeches for all occasions. p. 34
1990s

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.”

Saul Bellow book Herzog

Herzog (1964) [Penguin Classics, 2003, ISBN 0-142-43729-8], p. 82
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“One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

“I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.”

John le Carré (1931) British novelist and spy

John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/john_le_carre_1931_2020_on (25 December 2020)

“Treating a being as an end in itself means respecting the value of what makes it such an end. After we see that this value resides in rational nature, we see it implies that, at least in general, rational beings should not be subjected to deception or coercion. Instead, we should seek to harmonize our strivings with those of other rational beings toward their ends.”

Allen W. Wood (1942) academic

Kantian Ethics (2008)