“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.”
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
Rogue States (2000).
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Context: Let's go back to our point of departure: the contested issues of freedom and rights, hence sovereignty, insofar as it's to be valued. Do they inhere in persons of flesh and blood or … in abstract constructions like corporations, or capital, or states? In the past century the idea that such entities have special rights, over and above persons, has been strongly advocated. The most prominent examples are.
“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”
“When it’s bad, I get depressed; when it’s good, I get nervous.”
Humor in Psychotherapy (2007)
“I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.”
Je préfère la pensée à l'action, une idée à une affaire, la contemplation au mouvement.
Louis Lambert (1832), as translated by Clara Bell
Source: Enigmas Of Chance (1985), Chapter 5, Cornell, p. 112
Quote in Mondrian's letter to Theo van Doesburg, Amsterdam, 1915; as cited in Letters of the great artists, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 234 (transl. Daphne Woodward)
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