„The greatest trick the rich — and their cheerleaders on the right — ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn’t exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.“
Britain - a caste society?, JohannHari.com, January 29, 2006, 2007-01-26 http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=789,
Johann Hari
britischer Journalist und Kolumnist 1979Ähnliche Zitate
— Kim Stanley Robinson American science fiction writer 1952
Quelle: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 85)
„I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.“
— Robert Rauschenberg American artist 1925 - 2008
Quoted in: Kenneth Coutts-Smith (1970) The dream of Icarus, p. 53
1970's
— Joseph Louis Lagrange Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist 1736 - 1813
As quoted by F. R. Moulton, Introduction to Astronomy (New York, 1906), p. 199.
— Hans Rosling, buch Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Quelle: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
„What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?“
— Beatrix Potter English children's writer and illustrator 1866 - 1943
— Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964
Quelle: Scandal in Spring
— John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992
Quote in 'John Cage, For the Birds: John Cage In Conversation with Daniel Charles', London/New York: Marion Boyars, 1981; as quoted in: 'Tàpies: From Within', June ─ November, 2013 - Presse Release, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC ), p. 17, note 10
1980s
„The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
— Herrick Johnson American clergyman 1832 - 1913
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 135.
— Kristen Stewart American actress 1990
YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIPZ3dHD4Y&feature=player_embedded
— Madeleine L'Engle American writer 1918 - 2007
Section 2.2
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
— Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
— Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician and philosopher 1861 - 1947
Quelle: 1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), p. 259.
Variant: It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest, and its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.
As extended upon in Adventures of Ideas (1933), Pt. 4, Ch. 16.
Kontext: Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
— Hugo Chávez 48th President of Venezuela 1954 - 2013
Chavez is invoking a Christian metaphor to condemn capitalism in this Christmas address, December 24, 2005, which some commentators have taken to be a reference to the Jews. http://www.gobiernoenlinea.gob.ve/docMgr/sharedfiles/Chavez_visita_Centro_Manantial_de_los_suenos24122005.pdf http://bostonreview.net/BR34.4/lomnitz_sanchez.php http://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/editing-chavez-to-manufacture-a-slur/
2005
— Paulo Freire educator and philosopher 1921 - 1997
Quelle: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 4
— Kenneth Rexroth American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector 1905 - 1982
The Greek Anthology (p. 59)
Classics Revisited (1968)
