“Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.” PerfectDependsOrganizationInventionImperfectExecution Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.” BelieveHas BeensDoneFeelingsReligionTurnsWomenModernEffectsSweetDependsIntellectualCommunicateInventionTherapyDistinctionRelativeProtestantism Author:Flannery O'Connor
“Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?” WantKindWholeProblemFacesGrowthEconomyEconomicDependsInventionTemptationConsumersMechanismSeductionNoveltyEconomic Growth Author:Zygmunt Bauman