“Hindus and Moslems alike have achieved that End, where remains no mark of distinction.”
Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet
Songs of Kabîr (1915)
“No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.”
In Defense of Elitism
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J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer
As quoted in Elevator Music (1994) by Joseph Lanza
Context: I began to become an adult when I was 24 and got married and had children. That matures you, but I wouldn't say I was fully an adult until I was in my forties. The trouble with the whole adult debate is that if you're asking 18-year-olds to go out and fight wars for you then you can't deny them adult rights even though in sorts of other ways they wouldn't qualify until they were about 25. These days adolescence stretches much further into adulthood than it used to. There's no longer any encouragement to be mature.
“Rituals of belonging (ordeals, oaths, rites of passage) are designed to disambiguate membership.”
Nick Land (1962) British philosopher
"Kinds of Killing" https://web.archive.org/web/20121111032625/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/article/1008/kinds-of-killing (2011)
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
(1957) from "Classroom Without Walls", Explorations Vol. 7, 1957; reprinted in Explorations in Communication ed. E. Carpenter & M. McLuhan, (Boston: Beacon, 1960); and again in McLuhan: Hot and Cool ed. G. E. Stearn (NY: Dial, 1967).
1960s, Hot & Cool (1967)
“Men and parties, sects and schools are but the mere ephemera of the world's day.”
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book Isis Unveiled
Isis Unveiled (1877), Vol. I Preface
Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist
Source: Art As a Social System (2000), p. 54 as cited in: Pamela M. Lee (2004) Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960's. p. 66.
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Lecture IX, "Conversion"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.”
René Char (1907–1988) 20th-century French poet
Un poète doit laisser des traces de son passage, non des preuves. Seules les traces font rêver.
As quoted in The French-American Review (1976) by Texas Christian University, p. 132
Variant translation: A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Only traces bring about dreams.
As quoted in Popular Dissent, Human Agency, and Global Politics (2000) by Roland Bleiker, p. 50