To what extent can a revolution of the inner world impact the external, material world surrounding us?

However convincingly space agencies justify the enormous budgets, there’s one gratuitous expense: training astronauts for free fall.

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

“This text was written at the end of 1962, after my return from Algeria. For me the text is the matrix for Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats.” P.G.

A stupid tweet by a nobody, meant as a parody, somehow goes viral and the internet offers up death threats.

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

We rehearsed the crowd scenes in the Winter Palace, in the Throne Room and the Armorial Hall.

It is human selection that turns a machine selection that is meaningless because of its compilation criteria into a (potentially) meaningful narrative.

“Lifestyle must conform to the above-named circles of persons or be easily adapted,” “artistic talent,” “strong general education.”