Soms kom je van die uitspraken tegen die dusdanig goed verwoorden wat je wilt zeggen dat zwijgen op z'n plaats is.
Michel Foucault in an interview with Christian Delacampagne, Le Monde, 6./7. April 1980. Met dank aan http://mappingthemarvellous.wordpress.com/Curiosity is seen as futility. However, I like the word; it suggests something quite different to me. It evokes “care”; it evokes the care one takes of what exists and what might exist; a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilized before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and odd; a certain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look at the same things in a different way; a passion for seizing what is happening now and what is disappearing; a lack of respect for the traditional hierarchies of what is important and fundamental. I dream of a new age of curiosity.
