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1 " Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content? "
― V.Y. Mudimbe
2 " A liberation movement is doomed once it stops to haggle over nuances of good and evil. "
3 " I teased Fabrizio: "We're studying theology here.""How? Are you making fun of me?""Not at all. Livy read historical chronicles. He interprets them by his own passionate views and freezes them for all time. . . . He wanted theoretical support for a conclusion he accepted beforehand. Isn't that theology? "
4 " Forget language. After all, it bores me. The senses. And this much is true: any communication must transcend the immediacy of solidarity, must be mediated by ideological and economic connections. And there the senses reappear. No use giving in to words. "
5 " When an idea is preserved, isn't its form unimportant. "
6 " Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an “other” among others. "
― V.Y. Mudimbe , The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge
7 " I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism. "
8 " Isn't it more important to live reality and not symbols? "
9 " Even symbols decayed. "
10 " Form betrays. Form can betray. What matter, if the eternal meaning retains its true value. "
