Michel Telo Quotes

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. ~ Michel De Montaigne

a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart. ~ Michel Faber

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe , or start collecting model aeroplanes ~ Michel Houellebecq

I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists. ~ Michel Templet

I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it. ~ Michel Faber

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human. ~ Michel Houellebecq

The important thing here, I believe, is that truth isn't outside power or lacking in power: contrary to a myth whose history and functions would repay further study, truth isn't the reward of free spirits, the child of protracted solitude, nor the privilege of those who have succeeded in liberating themselves. Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power. Each society has its regime of truth, its "general politics" of truth - that is, the types of discourse it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances that enable one to distinguish true and false statements; the means by which each is sanctioned; the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth; the status of those who are charged with saying what counts as true. ~ Michel Foucault

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. ~ Michel De Montaigne

[Just as any foreigner is not fully human.] ~ Michel De Montaigne

...men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering. ~ Michel Bernanos

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales. ~ Michel De Montaigne

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. ~ Michel Onfray

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it. ~ Michel Houellebecq

What has become of critique when someone as eminent as Stanley Fish, the "enemy of promises" as Lindsay Waters calls him, believes he defends science studies, my field, by comparing the laws of physics to the rules of baseball? What has become of critique when there is a whole industry denying that the Apollo program landed on the moon? What has become of critique when DARPA uses for its Total Information Awareness project the Baconian slogan Scientia est potentia? Didn't I read that somewhere in Michel Foucault? Has knowledge-slash-power been co-opted of late by the National Security Agency? Has Discipline and Punish become the bedtime reading of Mr. Ridge? ~ Bruno Latour

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad. ~ Tamra Davis

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. ~ Michel De Montaigne

There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies and with other consenting adults. If you believe otherwise, then you are an enemy of freedom. ~ Michel Templet

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species ~ Michel Foucault

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Two years before, when the riots started, the media had had a field day, but now people discussed them less and less ... in fact the media's attitude had changed over the last few months. No one talked about violence in the banlieues or race riots anymore. That was all passed over in silence. ~ Michel Houellebecq

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature. ~ Michel De Montaigne

government finally made amends for its actions at Ruby Ridge. ~ Lou Michel

Finally, the lock clicked and she tugged the secret door open. A rotten stench hit her like a fist. She drew away. The boy at her side recoiled, afraid. Sarah fell to her knees. Sarah could not speak, she could only quiver, her fingers covering her eyes, her nose, blocking out the smell ... She sank to her knees again and she screamed at the top of her lungs, she screamed, for her mother, for her father, screamed for Michel. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

The time is now proper for us to reform backward; more by dissenting than by agreeing; by differing more than by consent. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress. ~ Michel De Certeau

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. ~ John Denver

Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact? ~ Michel Templet

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification. ~ Jen Pollock Michel

Men are nothing until they are excited. ~ Michel De Montaigne

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit has a qualitative character: a style of tactile apprehension and kinesthetic appropriation. Their swarming mass is an innumerable collection of singularities. Their intertwined paths give their shape to spaces. They weave places together. In that respect, pedestrian movements form one of these 'real systems whose existence in fact makes up the city.' They are not localized; it is rather they that spatialize. They are no more inserted within a container than those Chinese character speakers sketch out on their hands with their fingertips. ~ Michel De Certeau

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined. ~ Michel Templet

In all of human history there may never have been a mind as brilliant as Isaac Newton's - just think what an amazing, unheard-of intellectual effort it took to discover a single law that accounted for the fall of earthly bodies and the movement of the planets! Well, Newton believed in God. ~ Michel Houellebecq

Like everyone, I had,on many previous occasions, ignored a half-open door leading elsewhere - in the chilly passages of strange houses, in backyards, on the outskirts of towns. The frontier of our world is not far away; it doesn't run along the horizon or in the depths. It glimmers faintly close by, in the twilight of our nearest surroundings; out of the corner of our eye we can always glimpse another world, without realizing it. We are walking all the time along a shore and along the edge of a virgin forest. Our gestures would seem to rise out of an entity that also encompasses these concealed spaces, and in an odd way they reveal their shadowy existence, although we are unaware of the roar of waves and shrieks of animals - the disquieting accompaniment to our words (and possibly their secret birthplace); we are unaware of the glittering jewels in the unknown world of nooks and crannies; usually we don't stray off the path even once in our lifetime. ~ Michel Ajvaz