Discontinuity Quotes

• We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Past
  • Fall
  • Empty

• The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

  

  Paul Hirsch
  • Audience
  • Sound
  • Accepting

• If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.

  

  Gail Fine
  • Focus
  • Philosophy
  • Historian