“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Source: Cuando la escuela dejó de pensar. By José Baroja. (2026b, mayo 25). Le Monde Diplomatique. https://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/cuando-la-escuela-dejo-de-pensar-por-jose-baroja.html
“In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“If the meaning of life is futility, human longevity loses its luster.”
Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
“Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.”
"Humanity", Ch.VII "Humanity: A Way Forward", Part VIII
The Naked Communist (1958)
On the effect of western culture on Indian educations, as quoted in " Dinanath Batra targets foreign universities in new book http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141028/nation-current-affairs/article/dinanath-batra-targets-foreign-universities-new-book" Deccan Chronicle (28 October 2014)
“Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.”
20 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)