Miles Art

„Nie je dôležité, čo si dokázal v škole, ale to, čo dokážeš v živote.“

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) nemecko-americký fyzik a zakladateľ teórie relativity

„Každý je génius, no ak súdite rybu podľa jej schopnosti šplhať sa po stromoch, prežije celý svoj život vo viere, že je hlúpa.“

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) nemecko-americký fyzik a zakladateľ teórie relativity

„Keby to bolo možné, chodil by som do školy ako žiak. A že to neide, chodím do školy ako učiteľ.“

Peter Jilemnický (1901–1949)

“The social stock of knowledge differentiates reality by degrees of familiarity… my knowledge of my own occupation and its world is very rich and specific, while I have only very sketchy knowledge of the occupational worlds of others.”

Peter L. Berger kniha The Social Construction of Reality

“Legitimation as a process is best described as a 'second-order' objectivation of meaning. Legitimation produces new meanings that serve to integrate the meanings already attached to disparate institutional processes. The function of legitimation is to make objectively available and subjectively plausible the 'first-order' objectivations that have been institutionalized.”

Peter L. Berger kniha The Social Construction of Reality

“At least within our own consciousness, the past is malleable and flexible, constantly changing as our recollection reinterprets and re-explains what has happened.”

Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) Austrian-born American sociologist

“The encounter with bureaucracy takes place in a mode of explicit abstraction. … This fact gives rise to a contradiction. The individual expects to be treated “justly.” As we have seen, there is considerable moral investment in this expectation. The expected “just” treatment, however, is possible only if the bureaucracy operates abstractly, and that means it will treat the individual “as a number.” Thus the very “justice” of this treatment entails a depersonalization of each individual case. At least potentially, this constitutes a threat to the individual’s self-esteem and, in the extreme case, to his subjective identity. The degree to which this threat is actually felt will depend on extrinsic factors, such as the influence of culture critics who decry the “alienating” effects of bureaucratic organization. One may safely generalize here that the threat will be felt in direct proportion to the development of individualistic and personalistic values in the consciousness of the individual. Where such values are highly developed, it is likely that the intrinsic abstraction of bureaucracy will be felt as an acute irritation at best or an intolerable oppression at worst. In such cases the “duties” of the bureaucrat collide directly with the “rights” of the client—not, of course, those “rights” that are bureaucratically defined and find their correlates in the “duties” of the bureaucrat, but rather those “rights” that derive from extrabureaucratic values of personal autonomy, dignity and worth. The individual whose allegiance is given to such values is almost certainly going to resent being treated “as a number.””

Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) Austrian-born American sociologist

“Society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live. This determination may be institutionally programmed in the operation of social controls, as in the institution of law. Society can maim and kill. Indeed, it is in its power over life and death that it manifests its ultimate control over the individual.”

Peter L. Berger kniha The Social Construction of Reality

“Specific procedures of universe-maintenance become necessary when the symbolic universe has become a problem. As long as this is not the case, the symbolic universe is self-maintaining, that is, self-legitimating by the sheer facticity of its objective existence in the society in question.”

Peter L. Berger kniha The Social Construction of Reality

“The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground.”

Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) Austrian-born American sociologist

“The most important gain is that each [member of society] will be able to predict the other’s actions. Concomitantly, the interaction of both becomes predictable… Many actions are possible on a low level of attention. Each action of one is no longer a source of astonishment and potential danger to the other.”

Peter L. Berger kniha The Social Construction of Reality

“Modern science is an extreme step in this development, and in the secularization and sophistication of universe-maintenance.”

Peter L. Berger kniha The Social Construction of Reality

“One may view the individual’s everyday life in terms of the working away of a conversational apparatus that ongoingly maintains, modifies and reconstructs his subjective reality… [for example] ‘Well, it’s time for me to get to the station,’ and ‘Fine, darling, have a good day at the office’ implies an entire world within which these apparently simple propositions make sense… the exchange confirms the subjective reality of this world… the great part, if not all, of everyday conversation maintains subjective reality… imagine the effect…of an exchange like this: ‘Well, it’s time for me to get to the station,’ ‘Fine, darling, don’t forget to take along your gun.”

Peter L. Berger kniha The Social Construction of Reality

“A social world [is] a comprehensive and given reality confronting the individual in a manner analogous to the reality of the natural world… In early phases of socialization the child is quite incapable of distinguishing between the objectivity of natural phenomena and the objectivity of the social formations… The objective reality of institutions is not diminished if the individual does not understand their purpose or their mode of operation…He must ‘go out’ and learn about them, just as he must learn about nature.”

Peter L. Berger kniha The Social Construction of Reality

„Absolútna sloboda je nedostatok sebaovládania; zodpovednosť je sebaovládanie; preto ideálne slobodný človek je zodpovedný sebe samému.“

Henry Adams (1838–1918) novinár, historik, akademik, románopisec

„Kto netrávi svoje dni v kráľovstve snov, je otrokom dní.“

Chalíl Džibrán (1883–1931) libanonský výtvarník, básnik a spisovateľ

„Priateľstvo je slastná zodpovednosť, nikdy nie prospechárstvo.“

Chalíl Džibrán (1883–1931) libanonský výtvarník, básnik a spisovateľ

„Život je nekonečný rad príležitostí k učeniu a odkrývaniu jeho tajomstiev. Ani smrť nemôže tomu zabrániť, pretože so samotným životom tvorí jednotu.“

Chalíl Džibrán (1883–1931) libanonský výtvarník, básnik a spisovateľ

„Tvoj priateľ je tvoja naplnená túžba. Je to pole, ktoré sa láskou osievaš a z ktorého žneš s dušou plnou vďačnosti.“

Chalíl Džibrán (1883–1931) libanonský výtvarník, básnik a spisovateľ