Showing posts with label taboo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taboo. Show all posts

February 2, 2011

#2,709

“Sexual liberation” allows modern man to pretend to be ignorant of the multiple taboos of another kind that govern him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

January 21, 2011

#2,637

Modern man is ignorant of the positive quality of silence.
He does not know that there are many things of which one cannot speak without automatically disfiguring them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

August 10, 2010

#1,656

Untouchable topics abound in democratic times. Race, illnesses, climate, end up being caustic substances there. Unspeakable there is anything that might imply that humanity is not causa sui.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 277

June 20, 2010

#1,308

Each suppressed taboo makes human existence recede toward the dullness of instinct.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

May 26, 2010

#1,159

Between animal and man there is no barrier but a palisade of taboos.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 204