In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that any contamination by ordinary life runs the risk of corrupting and destroying its very nature.
Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right. - Roger Caillois
Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right.
- Roger Caillois
In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that … - Roger Caillois
In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that …
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of preca… - Roger Caillois
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of preca…
We must train ourselves in courage and generosity. - Roger Caillois
We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in th… - Roger Caillois
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in th…
Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect up… - Roger Caillois
Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect up…
The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality - Roger Caillois
The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the univ… - Roger Caillois
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the univ…
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