It goes back to the if identity becomes your achievement, what do you do, this is what happens? And I do think it leads to psychological disorders. You have to start doing things and stop thinking about yourself.
I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know, I mean, harpsichord is a really easy target, isn't it? I mean, it's - it's just how it is.
With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
When we become connected to the supreme spirit then we automatically becomes situated in our spiritual identity.
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece
That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.
Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.
The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.
Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.