That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
Herbert Read
In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life and vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.
community circles change peace choices integrity
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.
numbers people system
I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future.
people
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
life
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
discipline success war experience
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
culture quality worth wealth power
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
equality wealth power
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
art
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
society art
vision philosophy man art
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
symbols work art
The work of art.. Is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.
work beauty art
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
nature
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
growth principles nature
Showing 1 to 15 of 41 results
You must log in to post a comment.
There are no comments yet.
