“Look I'm not saying you have to agree with everything that's in here but we all know there's a problem. If we can't be honest about that, how is anything ever going to change?”
Source: The Book Club for Troublesome Women
“My role-and that is too emphatic a word-is to show people that they arc much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed. To change something in the minds of people-that's the role of an intellectual.”
Source: Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
“I would never again be the Ariadne who had not been to Opera, just as I would never again be the Ariadne who had never left Earth, just as I would never again be the Ariadne who had never left her parents' home, who had never bled, who had yet to learn to walk. A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would mean starvation. Crawling back into the husk would provide no shelter. It is a paradox – the impossibility of reclaiming that which lies behind, housed within a form comprised entirely of the repurposed pieces of that same past. We exist where we begin, yet to remain there is death.”
Source: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“If we're able to leave room for the encounters that will change us in ways we can't yet see, we can also acknowledge that we are each a confluence of forces that exceed our own understanding.”
Source: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“कोई भी चीज अचानक, एक दिन नहीं बदलती। बदलाव हमेशा धीरे-धीरे ही आते हैं।”
Source: आई डोन्ट लाइक यू
“He had changed, and that was what he wasn't proud of.”
Source: A Tempest of Tea
“Most people don't change, do they?" He'd stopped suddenly, his hands in his pockets, staring at a motorcar as it chugged past. "No matter what happens to them. No matter what they go through. They do everything they can to preserve their prejudices. Or their ambitions, even if those ambitions were cast when they were quite young and foolish. This is the business of living, as I once described it, isn't it? To explain away new experiences with old beliefs.”
Source: The Passion of Cleopatra
“Over the years I've noticed that, on hearing birds that are out of sight, I've gone from asking "What's there?" to "Who's there?”
Source: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“How can you expect to go in, where thorough and lasting change can only happen, if you’re always busy chasing loose and fake change outside yourself in the quote-unquote ‘real world’?”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“You can immediately go to a place you could never have imagined because you chose a new paradigm.”
Source: Paradigm Shift: Change Your Mindset and Live the Life of Your Dreams