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"Modernity" signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the... - MORE "Modernity" signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

modern times | art | artists

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. - MORE Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

modernism and postmodernism

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The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independentl... - MORE The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.

R.G. Collingwood

sensation | thinking | thoughtful

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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A... - MORE In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

Andrea Dworkin

men: masculinity

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I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the... - MORE I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

H.A.L. Fisher

historians

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Our argument ... will result, not upon logic by itself—though without logic we should never have got to this point—but upon th... - MORE Our argument ... will result, not upon logic by itself—though without logic we should never have got to this point—but upon the fortunate contingent fact that people who would take this logically possible view, after they had really imagined themselves in the other man's position, are extremely rare.

Richard M. Hare

ethics

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Poetry is the heaven of the working reason. Poetry is a divination of the spiritual in the things of sense—which expresses itsel... - MORE Poetry is the heaven of the working reason. Poetry is a divination of the spiritual in the things of sense—which expresses itself in the things of sense, and in a delight of sense. Metaphysics also pursues a spiritual prey, but metaphysics is engaged in abstract knowledge, while poetry quickens art. Metaphysics snatches at the spiritual in an idea, by the most abstract intellection; poetry reaches it in the flesh, by the very point of the sense sharpened through intelligence. Metaphysics enjoys its possession only in the retreats of the eternal regions, while poetry finds its own at every crossroad in the wanderings of the contingent and the singular. The more real the reality, the superreal (I would not give up this word to the Surrealists), the superreal which both seek, metaphysics must attain in the nature of things, while it suffices to poetry to touch it in any sign whatsoever. Metaphysics gives chase to essences and definitions, poetry to any flash of existence glittering by the way, and any reflection of an invisible order.

Jacques Maritain

poetry | poets | metaphysics

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... this is "society's" Sunday. The majority of Londoners of the middle class still keep to their chapels, churches, gardens, and ... - MORE ... this is "society's" Sunday. The majority of Londoners of the middle class still keep to their chapels, churches, gardens, and homes; it is a beautifully quiet and respectable day in the London suburbs. It is true that people seek the fresh air, couples go out on their bicycles, immense numbers of pedestrians are turning out towards the parks, and there is a great deal of movement, but it is decorous and becoming. It is one of the distinctions of New York that it is also a Sunday-keeping city. We of the small contingent of the Anglo-Saxon race are the only people who observe the Lord's day in this fashion.

M. E. W. Sherwood

Sundays | London | New York City

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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity... - MORE Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Baruch Spinoza

necessity | contingency

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