Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. All art is concerned with coming into bei...ng ... for art is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being, by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... that there is no other way, That the history of creation proceeds according to... Stringent laws, and that things Do get done in this way, but never the things We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately To see come into being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hidden away amongst Aschenbach's writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their ex...istence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human ...life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the mos...t foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come into animal presence. No man is so guileless as... the serpent. The lonely white rabbit on the roof is a star twitching its ears at the rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to p...lease his fancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone could lick a child all over as if it were a puppy or a kitten--but where had that thought come from? What a strange thing t...o come into her mind! And anyone could clutch at a child and mark its features: "This nose is mine, and that his, and that my mother's, and that his father's ..." Anybody, even a horse or a dog, could calculate streams of inheritance in that way. And all that was pleasant enough, and of course no one would refuse the delights of watching for the appearance of this or that trait in a child. But that was not even the half of it ... one might not, most definitely could not, say of a child, "mine, mine," or "ours, ours,"Mmeaning, only, parenthood. For what was real and fine and precious in this new being was in relation only with ... somewhere else ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come i...nto a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »