top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of 'pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism."
Standard
Customized
More
"Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Scent is the strongest tie to memory."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child."
Author Name
Personal Development
"People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's not that I can't remember. It's that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
Body
"Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized."
Knowledge
"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."
Man
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
Imagination
"The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are."
Science
"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."
Sleep
"If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'."
Parenting
"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
Problems
"Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of 'pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism."
Memory
"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."
Philosophy
bottom of page