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All Quotes Collection
"Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement."
54
"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."
53
"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."
35
"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple."
52
"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."
59
"All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention."
99
"Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison."
36
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
63
"It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence."
40
"And we forget because we must and not because we will."
63
"Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern."
40
"Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection."
46
"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
82
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
60
"Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it."
36
"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."
52
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
52
"Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
60
"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."
38
"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy."
28
"It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'"
23
"What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error."
32
"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters."
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