
“I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.”
Source: The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Part 2, p. 133
Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)
“I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.”
Source: The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Part 2, p. 133
“When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition.”
Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 90
“I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy … I'm not. I'm boring… At least by party standards.”
As quoted in "A Conversation Runs Through It" by Bruce Handy in Time magazine (13 October 1997) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,987166,00.html
“I am only a man: I need visible signs.”
"Veni Creator" (1961), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Pinsky
City Without a Name (1969)
Context: I am only a man: I need visible signs.
I tire easily, building the stairway of abstraction.
Many a time I asked, you know it well, that the statue in church
lift its hand, only once, just once, for me.
But I understand that signs must be human,
therefore call one man, anyone on earth,
not me — after all I have some decency —
and allow me, when I look at him, to marvel at you.
Happy Birthday To Me (Feb 15)
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 2018 nominating contests, as provided by Federal News Service and released in the New York Times (5 February 2008) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html
2008
On the possibility of George W. Bush's impeachment
CNN, July 13, 2007. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/13/sitroom.02.html