“I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.” HeartLittlesSoulPerfectImagineDoctorsMachinesDeeperEggsChestsFloatingCrystalsDeep Inside Book:The Children and the Wolves Source: The Children and the Wolves
“If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.” IfsImagineStreetsMediaBabyCrossesMachinesShiningApprovalBeamHaircuts Author:Ali MacGraw
“The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.” WantDoeEyeLiteratureImagineEffectsParticularReaderShapesMachinesAppropriateConstructsSolemnCalculationsLivelyInventingAdvancingSynthetic Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.” ThinkingWorldLooksWould BeTodayPastPoliticalFunImagineCenturyCoupleMachinesScientistPhilosopherBe GoodWorld TodayTime MachineHobbesGood FunGreat PhilosophersMalthus Author:Scott D. Anthony