A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know. |
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. |
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war |
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable |
Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable |
Don't Let Your Child's Blood and Death Be for Nothing. |
I don't expect much rain. |
I don't think we're expecting anything big in the way of surf. |
I suggest the Old Man is not here, but his spirit sure is, ... New Hampshire should be damn proud of these men. |
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals |
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. |
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. |
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! |
Some of you have been injured, ... Some of you still have injuries. |
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. |