Experience is a form
Experience is a form of paralysis. Erik Satie
Paralysis
Boredom is nothing but
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it. Erich Fromm
Boredom is nothing but
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. Erich Fromm
We all dread a
We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul. Epictetus
As art sinks into
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy. Emile M. Cioran
Anyone who would attempt
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems. Ellen Key
Look at the reactions
Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we’ve got this big debate, but we’ve got official paralysis – because they’re the ones who had their hand caught most deeply in the cookie jar. Edward Snowden
Some days it is
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. Edward Albert
There is a kind
There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. … Read more
OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency,
OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. Douglas Coupland