“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Jean Baudrillard book Simulacra and Simulation
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
Jean Baudrillard book Simulacra and Simulation
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“The more you live, the less useful it seems to have lived.”
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto II, line 443
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.”
Richard Louv book Last Child in the Woods
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Man and Language (1966)
Context: The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows that from the forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. What is said in it constitutes the common world in which we live. … The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it — what is said.
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959) British economist
Source: The Economics of Welfare (1920), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4
“I want to live till I die. No more, no less.”
Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer
“Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 186.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Introduction to the story “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” p. 166
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)