Mark Blasini

"Those who criticize without creating, those who are content to defend the vanished concept without being able to give it the forces it needs to return to life, are the plague of philosophy."

"When philosophers criticize each other it is on the basis of problems and on a plane that is different from theirs and that meltdown the old Concepts in the way a Canon can be melted down to make new weapons. It never takes place on the same plane."

"Style concludes. Man grows."

The heart has reasons of which reasons do not know.

Deleuze saw life, not just human life, as an active response to problems; genetic or evolutionary mutations are responses to ‘problems’ of existence.

I am myself and my circumstances.

Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness.

"Jogging is not only a form of exercise to me. It is also a form of relaxation. It is my own hour every morning when I can be alone with my thoughts."

"Develop the tools, refine the tools, then dissolve the tools."

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

"Every talent must unfold itself in fighting."

"Truth comes to us when we understand personally the whole process of working on our being."

"If you understand the situation that you are in, and let the situation that you are in control your actions, then you learn how to cope with life."

"Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves."

"Most people expect that the magic formula, just to use the sounds, "You should do this," might have an actual effect on reality.

"Because he can yield, a man can survive.

Life is so much easier if you can figure out how to keep yourself entertained.