Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.
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To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
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The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
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Everything may happen.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
