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8768 | Books are endless, and study is wearisome [Anon (Ecc)] |
Full Idea: Of making many books there is no end; and much study is weariness of the flesh. | |
From: Anon (Ecc) (21: Book of Ecclesiastes [c.200 BCE], 12.12) | |
A reaction: Does anyone share my occasional sinking heart on entering a large library or bookshop? I truly believe that there is nothing better in the world than books. And yet, and yet... |
7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
Full Idea: The course of history came to an end with the entry on the scene of the news media. | |
From: Jean Baudrillard (The Intelligence of Evil [2004], p. 83) | |
A reaction: The sort of remark for which Baudrillard became famous. It strikes me as nonsense. The view the British people got of the Battle of Trafalgar was even more distorted than their picture of the Battle of El Alamein. We know what he means, though. |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
Full Idea: Suicide is always ascribed to depressive motivations with no account taken of an originality of, an original will to commit, the act itself. | |
From: Jean Baudrillard (The Intelligence of Evil [2004], p.153) | |
A reaction: Apparently research suggests that most suicides are clinically depressed, but even within the depression there is a startling act of will that goes beyond merely feeling bad. |