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Contemporary art, butterflies of spirit, necessary suffering, and Umberto Eco quotes
"...he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder..." Umberto Eco (from Foucault's Pendulum)
"If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it, because your heart would not have been purified by the long quest." Umberto Eco (from Foucault's Pendulum)
The world is "...a harmless enigma, made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it." Umberto Eco (from Foucault's Pendulum)
Contemporary art exists somewhere between talent and economics.
One of the main problems with religious thought is that it sees man as a static and unchanging entity.
We believe what we see, and see only what we believe.
'Word' is the first form of knowledge, a way of making things commonplace, of removing essential awe.
There are no distinctions and no prejudices without a point of reference. We are that point of reference.
Interpretation is the fifth dimension.
Perhaps the word 'adult' should be removed from our vocabulary, due to its misleading (adulterous) nuance of 'maturity'.
And humans are the caterpillars to the butterflies of spirit.
The effects of unfinished thoughts carry on in the psyche. Thoughts must be finished and reconciled.
If a dog in a flea bath cannot understand that its torture is necessary, it despairs, and considers its master odious. Suffering is the necessary evil, which is actually benevolence, that the dog cannot understand.
These fragments are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, from the notebooks 1990-2005.
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