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#3081
The principle of numbness comes into play with electric technology, as with any other. We have to numb our central nervous system when it is extended and exposed, or we will die. Thus the age of anxiety and of electric media is also the age of the unconscious and of apathy. But it is strikingly the age of consciousness of the unconscious, in addition.
…But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget… I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another’s vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore
People living near the seashore grow so accustomed to the murmur of the waves that they never hear it. By the same token, we scarcely ever hear the words which we utter… We look at each other, but we do not see each other any more. Our perception of the world has withered away; what has remained is mere recognition.
Book: Literatura i Kinematograf
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The human brain is genetically predisposed toward organization, yet if not tightly controlled, will link one imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest of pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regard for logic or chronological sequence.
There is unexpected beauty hidden everywhere in this world — one just has to be open to seeing it. Remember that the next time you sneeze on your monitor.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
No two people read the same book.
“It’s so obvious!”
a running inside joke about really hard problems
For some people, the calculator does nothing but bite them. For others, the calculator dances.
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
I don’t believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you’ve been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you’ve known it always.
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.