Panos Diakakis

“While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (αυτο-νομούνται). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)”
― Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society

“Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.”
― Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

“...κάθε στιγμή προσφέρεται ως δυσανάγνωστο χειρόγραφο μιας άγνωστης γλώσσας, όπου ο λαθραναγνώστης πλάνης διαβάζει συλλαβιστά κάτι από τη μοίρα του. Κι όσο πιο μεθυσμένος, τόσο πιο διαυγής.”
― Κωστής Παπαγιώργης, Περί μέθης

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa