One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
Alan MooreRead
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Interpretation
This quote explores the idea of identity and the masks we wear in society.
Alan Moore's quote delves into the complex relationship between form and function, questioning the essence of identity. By stating that he is 'a man in a mask,' Moore suggests that individuals often present a faΓ§ade to the world, which may not represent their true selves, thus inviting reflection on the nature of authenticity and self-perception.
In practice
In a discussion about self-identity at a philosophy club.
One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: βIn the beginning was the Word.
My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
Love your rage, not your cage.
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.
The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.
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