Magic is akin to science in that it always has a definite aim intimately associated with human instincts, needs, and pursuits. The... magic art is directed towards the attainment of practical aims. Like other arts and crafts, it is also governed by a theory, by a system of principles which dictate the manner in which the act has to be performed in order to be effective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural ho...mestead.... It is a hieroglyphic of man's life, and suggests more intimate and important things than the boiling of a pot. Where its fine column rises above the forest, like an ensign, some human life has planted itself,--and such is the beginning of Rome, the establishment of the arts, and the foundation of empires, whether on the prairies of America or the steppes of Asia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learn...ing and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there is nothing more irritating to a feminist than the average "Woman's Page" of a newspaper, with its out-dated assumption t...hat all women have a common trade interest in the household arts, and a common leisure interest in clothes and the doings of "high society." Women's interests to-day are as wide as the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, polit...ics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He ...is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eliot dead, you saying, "And who is left to understand my jokes?... My old Brother in the arts . . . and besides, he was a smash of poet."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of th...e craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »