The Entanglement Quotes

“this sense: the act of thinking, looking, and talking about what you see changes what you know and see. After this labor, now you can, finally, see.”
― Alva Noë, The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

“It is suggestive, if nothing more, to be reminded that the first occurrences in ancient Greek of the word for line or drawing or writing (graphein) are actually in reference to the cut made on the body by a pointed arrow. The first writing, in our literary tradition anyway, was violent scarring.”
― Alva Noë, The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are