Unwittingly Quotes
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It could be all unwittingly that I wrote in Darkness Visible what amounted to a Rosetta stone for my other work.
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More Unwittingly Quotes
Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.
ellen willis— "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag", New Politics (Summer 2005), Vol. X, No. 3
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia , rather than curiosity , and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.
— Walter Benjamin, in Impelled, Dictionary.com
