[Regarding the idea of] race, ... no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races? |
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth |
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth |
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth |
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can |
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. |
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice |
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice |
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made |
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made |
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, |
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. |
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. |
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. |
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age |