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@kawaiipeacefire
Muy al contrario de lo que propone Leach, pareciera haber una disposición -y a veces una obsesión- de las culturas a demostrar que sus mitos son consistentes. Incluso, la introducción de misterios es el resultado de ese esfuerzo por obtener la consistencia lógica de un sistema mítíco y no del impulso a trascender a la lógica ordinaria.
Guillermo Páramo Rocha
It will be the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant and contemptuous of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and pretended scientists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a, minority ruling in the name of knowledge and an immense ignorant majority. And then, woe betide the mass of ignorant ones!
Bakunin
These examples already show that it would be hardly fruitful to let statements such as 'this is rational' or 'this is irrational' influence research. The notions are ambiguous and never clearly explained, and trying to enforce them would be counter productive: 'irrational' procedures often lead to success (in the sense of those who call them 'irrational'), while 'rational' procedures may cause tremendous problems.(...) The assumption that there exist universally valid and binding standards of knowledge and action is a special case of a belief whose influence extends far bevond the domain of intellectual debate. This belief (of which I have already given some examples) may be formulated by saying that there exists a right way of living and that the world must be made to accept it.(...) But the idea that there is such a content, that it is universally valid and that it justifies inter-vention always played and is still playing an important role (as I indicated above, this is held even by some critics of objectivism and reductionism.) We may surmise that the idea is a leftover from times when important matters were run from a single centre, a king or a jealous god, supporting and giving authority to a single world view. And we may further surmise that Reason and Rationality are powers of a similar kind and are surrounded by the same aura as were gods, kings, tyrants and their merciless laws. The content has evaporated; the aura remains and makes the powers survive. The absence of content is a tremendous advantage; it enables special groups to call themselves 'rationalists', to claim that widely recognized successes were the work of Reason and to use the strength thus gained to suppress developments contrary to their interests. Needless to say, most of these claims are spurious. I have already mentioned the case of the sciences: they may proceed in an orderly way but the patterns that occur are not stable and cannot be universalised. Enlightenment, another alleged gift of Reason, is a slogan, not a reality. 'Enlightenment', wrote Kant ('What is Enlightenment?', cited in L.W. Beck, ed, Kant, On History, Library of Liberal Arts 1957, p. 3), 'is man's release from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this immaturity when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution'. Enlightenment in this sense is a rarity today. Citizens take their cue from experts, not from independent thought. This is what is now meant by 'being rational'. Increasing parts of the lives of individuals, families, villages, cities are taken over by specialists. Very soon a person will not be able to say 'I am depressed' without having to listen to the objection, 'So you think you are a psychologist?'. 'If I have a book', Kant wrote long ago, 'which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.'
Paul Feyerabend in Farewell to reason
Não, imbecis! Não! Tolos e cretinos que vocês são, um livro não vai fazer um prato de sopa; um romance não é um par de botas; um soneto não é uma seringa; um drama não é uma estrada de ferro. […] Não, duzentas mil vezes não’.
Théophile de Gautier, em seu prefácio a Mademoiselle de Maupin, de 1835
Río de Janeiro, el agua es tu bandera, agita sus colores, sopla y suena en el viento, ciudad, náyade negra, de claridad sin fin, de hirviente sombra, de piedra con espuma es tu tejido, el lúcido balance de tu hamaca marina, el azul movimiento de tus pies arenosos, el encendido ramo de tus ojos. Río, Río de Janeiro, los gigantes salpicaron tu estatua con puntos de pimienta, dejaron en tu boca lomos del mar, aletas turbadoramente tibias, promontorios de la fertilidad, tetas del agua, declives de granito, labios de oro, y entre la piedra rota el sol marino iluminando espumas estrelladas Oh Belleza, oh ciudadela de piel fosforescente, granada de carne azul, oh diosa tatuada en sucesivas olas de ágata negra, de tu desnuda estatua sale un aroma de jazmín mojado por el sudor, un ácido relente de cafetales y de fruterías y poco a poco bajo tu diadema, entre la duplicada maravilla de tus senos, entre cúpula y cúpula de tu naturaleza asoma el diente de la desventura, la cancerosa cola de la miseria humana, en los cerros leprosos el racimo inclemente de las vidas, luciérnaga terrible, esmeralda extraída de la sangre, tu pueblo hacia los límites de la selva se extiende y un rumor oprimido, pasos y sordas voces, migraciones de hambrientos, oscuros pies con sangre, tu pueblo, más allá de los ríos, en la densa amazonia, olvidado, en el Norte de espinas, olvidado, con sed en las mesetas, olvidado, en los puertos, mordido por la fiebre, olvidado, en la puerta de la casa de donde lo expulsaron, pidiéndote una sola mirada, y olvidado. En otras tierras, reinos, naciones, islas, la ciudad capital, la coronada, fue colmena de trabajos humanos, muestra de la desdicha y del acierto, hígado de la pobre monarquía, cocina de la pálida república. Tú eres el cegador escaparate de una sombría noche, la garganta cubierta de aguas marinas y oro de un cuerpo abandonado, eres la puerta delirante de una casa vacía, eres el antiguo pecado, la salamandra cruel, intacta en el brasero de los largos dolores de tu pueblo, eres Sodoma, sí, Sodoma, deslumbrante, con un fondo sombrío de terciopelo verde, rodeada de crespa sombra, de aguas ilimitadas, duermes en los brazos de la desconocida primavera de un planeta salvaje. Río, Río de Janeiro, cuántas cosas debo decirte. Nombres que no olvido, amores que maduran su perfume, citas contigo, cuando de tu pueblo una ola agregue a tu diadema la ternura, cuando a tu bandera de aguas asciendan las estrellas del hombre, no del mar, no del cielo, cuando en el esplendor de tu aureola yo vea al negro, al blanco, al hijo de tu tierra y tu sangre, elevados hasta la dignidad de tu hermosura, iguales en tu luz resplandeciente, propietarios humildes y orgullosos del espacio y de la alegría, entonces, Río de Janeiro, cuando alguna vez para todos tus hijos no sólo para algunos, des tu sonrisa, espuma de náyade morena, entonces yo seré tu poeta, llegaré con mi lira a cantar en tu aroma y dormiré en tu cinta de platino, en tu arena incomparable, en la frescura azul del abanico que abrirás en mi sueño como las alas de una gigantesca mariposa marina.
Oda a Río de Janeiro de Pablo Neruda
Monges, falo a vocês agora. As coisas condicionadas são sujeitas à decadência. Façam o que tem que ser feito sem demora.
Buda Shakyamuni
“Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then [let him change it] with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.”
Hadith 34, 40 Hadith an-Nawawi
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Perder é uma forma de aprender. E ganhar, uma forma de esquecer o que se aprendeu.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
A criação não é uma compreensão, é um novo mistério.
Clarice Lispector
Hoch wuchs ich über Mensch und Tier; und sprech' ich - niemand spricht mit mir. Zu einsam wuchs ich und zu hoch - ich warte: worauf wart' ich doch? Zu nah ist mir der Wolken Sitz,- ich warte auf den ersten Blitz.
Nietzsche em Pinie und Blitz
Asger Jorn: L'avant-garde se rend pas [The avant-garde does not surrender], 1962.
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This point of view, I will admit, is clearly distinct from that of technicians and sociologists; and I am far from saying that it is the only acceptable view. I will not even go so far as to believe that it is possible to establish a harmony among these different points of view. I only claim that truth, here as elsewhere, is not unique; that it is composed of several truths that are mutually insoluble, linked in a sort of paradoxical complexity; that truth is a complementary system of mutually contradictory truths. This is a new conception of reality, a conception that is in accord with the latest evolutions of science and philosophy. This conception has only recently overturned all classical geometry, logic and philosophy. It is creating a new situation that is radically transforming our view of the world and of human life. Because of this, today we are obliged to call into question everything that we know and everything that we have done up till now. (...) The doctrines of Le Corbusier and of the old Bauhaus in Germany were revolutionary in their time, and they constitute one of the bases of the revolution that is presently beginning. But their doctrines were all based on classical philosophy and logic. Today we need a new ideological foundation. We need new doctrines.
Asger Jorn em Against Functionalism
Tornaram-se meus inimigos pessoais: os que pervertem, os que entristecem, os que enfraquecem, os retrógrados, os lerdos e os farsantes. Desprezo tudo que diminui o homem: tudo que tende a torná-lo menos sábio, menos confiante ou menos alerta. Pois não aceito que a sabedoria esteja sempre acompanhada de lentidão e de desconfiança. É também por isso que creio, frequentemente, haver mais sabedoria na criança do que no velho.
André Gide
6.363. The procedure of induction consists in accepting as true the simplest law that can be reconciled with our experiences. 6.3631. This procedure, however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one. It is clear that there are no grounds for believing that the simplest eventuality will in fact be realized. 6.36311. It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. 6.37. There is no compulsion making one thing happen because another has happened. The only necessity that exists is logical necessity. 6.371. The whole modern conception of the world is founded on the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena. 6.372. Thus people today stop at the laws of nature, treating them as something inviolable, just as God and Fate were treated in past ages. In fact both are right and both wrong: though the view of the ancients is clearer in so far as they have a clear and acknowledged terminus, while the modern system tries to make it look as if everything were explained.
Wittgenstein em Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Desde há algum tempo, o homem moderno crê que os meios de comunicação o liberaram da dependência do lugar. Isto é uma ilusão.
Enrique Browne em Otra arquitectura en América Latina