Quotes by Attali, Jacques

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon th >>

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition i >>

Quotations about Noise

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the >>

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside >>

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. >>

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Attali, Jacques