Inaccessible Quotes - Page 4

• Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Reality, Law

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• Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe: - Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible. - Remember, it's always better to be the smartass rather than the dumbass.

  Jill Shalvis

  Taken, Men, Two

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• Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

  Patti Smith

  Summer, Growing Up, Moon

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.104, A&C Black

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• I was recently told, 'You're a liar!' when I said to somebody I walked down the spine of the Andes. Every Spaniard in the sixteenth, seventeenth century did that. The idea that somebody could just walk! He can jog perhaps in the morning, but he can't walk anywhere! The world has become inaccessible because we drive there.

  Ivan Illich

  Morning, Liars, Ideas

  "Land of Found Friends". "We the People" radio program with Jerry Brown on March 22, 1996. Whole Earth Review, No. 90, www.aislingmagazine.com. Summer 1997.

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• We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

  Tim O'Brien

  Wall, Forever, Wish

  Tim O'Brien (2006). “In the Lake of the Woods”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Suicide, Fall, Glasses

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.131, Profile Books

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• My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Echoes, Names

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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• From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Mountain Ranges, Dust

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to the initiates. This was a long road which he was traveling with effort, wonderment, and profound joy. Physics was prose: elegant gymnastics for the mind, mirror of Creation, the key to man's dominion over the planet; but what is the stature of Creation, of man and the planet? His road was long and he had barely started up it, but I was his disciple: did I want to follow him?

  Primo Levi

  Gymnastics, Men, Creation Of Man

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• They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

  Eric Clapton

  Drawing, Guy, Necks

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• Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

  Jacques Derrida

  Philosopher, Scientist, Easier

  "Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994".

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• OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Stress, Splendor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.173, University of Georgia Press

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• A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

  Henri Poincare

  Independent, Science, Reality

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Data, Creative, Program

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Men

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1861). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Adapted for Family Reading”, p.185

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• The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spirit, Influence

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.264

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• Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.

  David Eagleman

  Acid, Aliens, Strings

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.168, Vintage

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• I never had any dates. I never really had any boyfriends. I was the girl who did the guys' homework. I was really crazy about guys but I was always like one of the boys. The guys I always fell in love with were completely inaccessible.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Crazy, Boys

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

  Tavares Strachan

  Confusing, Way, Human Experience

  "Tavares Strachan's Desert Explosion". Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music has always been the perfect construction - an inaccessible ideal.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Animal, Perfect, Bird

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Writing, Emotional, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Silver rights aren't as dramatic and captivating as civil rights. The movement isn't good TV and it's boring or inaccessible to many people. The forums were created to spread awareness, dialogue, and community to forge new partnerships and ideas.

  John Hope Bryant

  Ideas, Rights, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• This harmony that human intelligence believes it discovers in nature - does it exist apart from that intelligence? No, without doubt, a reality completely independent of the spirit which conceives it, sees it or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so exterior as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. But what we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, that which is common to several thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we will see, can be nothing but the harmony expressed by mathematical laws.

  Henri Poincare

  Believe, Independent, Reality

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• Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

  Artur Schnabel

  Masters

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• If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.

  Bocafloja

  Community, Doe, Speech

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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