“I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.” HumansKindImportantWould BeIndividualHuman BeingsMonthsDevelopmentActivitySixDetailsDeedsOfficialsRebelGesturesSix MonthsVitalityMonarchsCataloguesScandalous Author:Louis Aragon
“Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.” TypeDevelopmentMathematicsHistoricalAncientDetailsObscureSpecialists Author:Ivor Grattan-Guinness
“After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingMindFirstsKindFactsInspirationWaitingProcessNovelGoes OnDevelopmentPaperTasksDetailsRecognitionGentleShock Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesEvilJusticeDevelopmentInternetWeaponsCourtDetailsTrialsJudgementOpennessFairnessCivil Society Author:Ai Weiwei
“I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.” HumansDevelopmentConsciousDetailsPortionsInabilityHuman Knowledge Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin