May 28, 2009 5:48 PM

"The foundation of one's thought is the thought of another; thought is like a brick cemented into a wall.  It is a simulacrum of thought if, in his looking back on himself, the being who thinks sees a free brick and not the price this semblance of freedom costs him: he doesn't see the waste ground and the heaps of detritus to which a sensitive vanity consigns him with his brick."

-Georges Bataille