“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.” PeopleKnowsYearsStillsRealityLossSpaceRecordsGraceRelationIncludingFlyingSettingSettingsPreparationDramaticStringsBoresApplauseAstronautWrong ThingsSprintUnwaveringShowy Author:Chris Hadfield
“I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.” IfsStillsBodySpeakFrontsPerceptionRelationInterpretationSelf Perception Book:Phenomenology of Perception Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.” KnowsNeedsStillsKnow HowStageLateCapitalismRelationProfitNot SureTestimonyTheftAmerican Capitalism Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.” ThinkingStillsPhilosophyWrittenSubjectsAmountRelationMethodEnormousStatementsConfusionClarityContradictoryMarxist Author:John Desmond Bernal