Quotes from Michael Foley

Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down. This person must be a dangerous lunatic or a prisoner sentenced to solitary confinement. If a free agent, then a panty-sniffing loser shunned by society, or a psycho planning to return to college with an automatic weapon and a backpack full of ammo.

The drive to make everything lightweight is depriving us of the the deep reassurance of heft.

The perfect servant is the one who attends to all the master's whims - anyone can do that - but the one who anticipates the whims.

So a contemporary wedding is like the Olympic Games, a spectacle of detailed research and preparation but lasts only a short time. Even if it all goes according to plan, a wedding is over in a day, much of it spent being ordered around by photographers, and when the audience is gone and the costumes returned to their boxes (never again to be taken out), an ordinary man and woman look to each other and think: 'Is this all it is?

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

Günümüzde art?k kimse kabahatini kabullenmek istemiyor, herkes kurban görülmek istiyor ve bunu s?kl?kla, en olmayacak ?artlarda dahi ba?ar?yor.

Dü?ünmenin alternatifi duygular de?il, dü?ünmemektir.

Stupidity, selfishness and good health are the three prerequisites of happiness, though if stupidity is lacking the others are useless.'7

Only Robinson Crusoe got it all done by Friday!

Proust laat ook zien dat er geen betere manier om anderen te misleiden bestaat dan eerst jezelf te misleiden: 'Men liegt het hele leven door, met name tegen geliefden, en bovenal tegen de vreemdeling wiens minachting ons de meeste pijn zou doen: zichzelf.

Since everything is connected to everything else, in order to understand anything it is necessary to understand everything.

As Seneca put it: 'The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.

Kapitalizmin en ba?ar?l? güven numaralar?ndan biri herkesin milyoner olabilece?i yan?lsamas?n? yayabilmesidir. Oysa zirvede sadece birkaç ki?iye yer vard?r ve zirvede yer alabilecek beceriye çok az ki?i sahiptir.

Al??veri? merkezlerinde her ?ey, herhangi bir ?ey istememenin feci kabal??a girece?i hissini yaratmak üzere tasarlan?r.

?nsan ba?kalar?n?n kusurlar?n? yabayla saman savururcas?na kolay aç??a ç?kar?r ama kendininkileri kurnaz bir kumarbaz?n zar?n? tutu?undaki ustal?kla saklar." - Buda

Bir duygu, hakk?nda aç?k bir fikir olu?turdu?umuz anda ihtiras olmaktan ç?kar." - Spinoza

Her bir ?eyin varl???n? sürdürmede kulland??? çaba, esas?nda o ?eyin bizatihi özünden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

Kapitalizm, kar??-kültürü sa?l?kl? bir diyetin lifli g?das? görmektedir.

The common challenges of earning a living, maintaining a relationship and ageing are becoming battlegrounds of existential angst and self-loathing in a culture that demands conspicuous consumption, high-octane partnerships and perpetual youth.

So, even as I deride television, I am fantasizing about propagating this view on talk shows. And even as I give the impression of being coolly indifferent to the opinion of others, I am coolly calculating the best way to impress. What I want is to be loved for never wanting to be loved.

Otorite sayg?y? kazan?r, iktidarsa talep eder; otoritenin tuza?a ihtiyac? yokken iktidar, ürkütücü, a??rl?k sunan giysiler gereksinir; otorite aç?k yürek, iktidarsa s?k?l? yumruktur.

?nsan, Tanr?'y? yüceltmek için küçük ?akalar?na, özellikle kötü ?akalar?na Tanr?'yla birlikte gülmekten daha iyi ne yapabilir?