A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die |
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man |
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man |
All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss |
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. |
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope |
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope |
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. |
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. |
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. |
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. |
Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed |
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters. |
I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours |
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it. |