Raymond Radiguet, Den Teufel im Leib, S. 102
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator - though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.
19/09/2012
Lob der Faulheit
Wenn die Jugend unerfahren ist, so kommt das daher, daß sie niemals wirklich gefaulenzt hat. Der Fehler unserer Erziehungsmethoden ist, daß sie sich der großen Zahl wegen nur an die Mittelmäßigen wenden. Für einen Geist, der sich entwickelt, gibt es keine Faulheit. Ich habe niemals mehr gelernt als an jenen langen Tagen, die einem Zuschauer leer erschienen wären, und an denen ich mein unerfahrenes Herz beobachtete wie ein Parvenu seine Bewegungen bei Tisch überwacht.
17/09/2012
Easy vs. Hard
When people say that something is wrong, they are almost always right. When they tell you how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Tucker Max (quoted here)
09/09/2012
Two Visions of Power
Contemporary controversies revolving around differences in the very conception of power often go back to centuries-old differences in the visions of man and social causation. Whenever one individual or group can change the behavior of another, then the former has power over the latter, as power is conceived by J. K. Galbraith, Gunnar Myrdal, Laurence Tribe, or other modern thinkers in the tradition of the unconstrained vision. Those with the constrained vision reject this conception of power, when behavioral changes are made in response to a quid pro quo, and conceive of power as the ability to reduce someone's pre-existing options. The result may be the same in both cases, whether achieved by threat or reward, but the constrained vision is not a vision of results but of processes.
Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions, pp. 190-91
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