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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

For those who don’t believe, no explanation is possible.
For those who do, no explanation is necessary.

There is no solution because there is no problem.
I just like - just breathing. I like breathing better than working.
“Marcel Duchamp” in The Mysteries and What’s So Funny by David Gordon

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the “rat race” - the [...]

Too often we measure everything and understand nothing.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Man is a senseless coincidence who circles a sun like a piece of intergalactic driftwood for a fraction of a cosmic second, desperately struggling to make sense of the nonsense between birth and death.

Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on [...]

I made up my mind . . . that I would never try to reform man—that’s much too difficult ( … ) What I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferred directions.
From Dymaxion Man: The visions of Buckminster Fuller by Elizabeth Kolbert
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