7 Quotes by Simeon Wade

You have to be lost as a young man,' Michel replied, 'You are not really trying unless you are lost. That is a good sign. I was lost as a young man too.''Should I take chances with my life?' Jake continued.'By all means! Take risks, go out on a limb.''But I yearn for solutions.''There are no solutions.''Then at least some answers.''There are no answers!

But don't you think that Nietzsche believed that it is important to try to feel the will that you have within yourself as a person?''No, I don't think Nietzsche was saying that. Nietzsche was using the power of the individual as an instrument to combat the moral order that had been established, but he does not belong in any way to the tradition of individualism, which establishes the individual man as the important one in the historical context.

What was it like for you before the gay movement?' the young gay student asked.'You might not believe this.' Foucault replied, 'but I actually liked the scene before the gay liberation, when everything was more covert. It was like an underground fraternity, exciting and a bit dangerous. Friendship meant a lot, it meant a lot of trust, we protected each other, we related to each other by secret codes.

Lévi-Strauss is a very conservative man,' Foucault avowed. 'And sometimes he behaves very badly . He writes too many books, which keeps him enclosed in his study. Consequently, he doesn't know the world. Scholars make a great mistake in endeavoring to write and publish all they have to say. We should write only a few good books and leave it to our students to complete the tasks we have begun. Otherwise the scholar spends too little time int the world and does not get to know the world.

Don't you think the Golden Gate Bridge looks to the East in the same way the Statue of Liberty faces Europe, the Old World?' Mike now asked. 'That the Bridge and the Statue face in opposite directions, the Bridge is the end whereas the Statue is the beginning?''The Golden Gate Bridge should be understood symbolically,' Foucault responded, 'in the sense that it does not go from America back to America but that it should be something that could possibly open up out of America.

Another book out of Mexico which interests me is Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society. Do you know it?' I inquired.'Yes, and I too have a high opinion of the thesis of the book. Illich is a man with one good idea. I see you have here Deleuze's Proust and Signs. What do you think of it?''I consider it the best book about Proust I have ever read.

Actually, Deleuze wouldn't strike you as being all that unusual,' Foucault replied. 'He appears completely conventional. He is married and has two children.