Katya

“Ум – это безумная обезьяна, несущаяся к пропасти. Причем мысль о том, что ум – это безумная обезьяна, несущаяся к пропасти, есть не что иное, как кокетливая попытка безумной обезьяны поправить прическу на пути к обрыву.”
― Виктор Пелевин

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed. You may ask what good it does us. Let's put it this way — human beings possess the weapon of knowledge in order to make life bearable. For animals such things aren't necessary. Animals don't need knowledge or anything of the sort to make life bearable. But human beings do need something, and with knowledge they can make the very intolerableness of life a weapon, though at the same time that intolerableness is not reduced in the slightest. That's all there is to it.”
― Yukio Mishima The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1959).

“The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to posses, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts. The esthetic emotion (I use the general term) is therefore static. The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.”
― James Joyce

“Протест - это бесплатный гламур для бедных.”
― Victor Pelevin, Бэтман Аполло