“Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.”
“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. ”
“If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.”
“Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.”
“One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.”
“The central importance of entering worlds other than our own lies in the fact that the experience leads us to understand that our own world is also a cultural construct. By experiencing other worlds, then, we see our own for what it is and are thereby enabled also to see fleetingly what the real world, the one between our own cultural construct and those other worlds, must in fact be like.”