Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by soc...ial reality to appear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look There he is now, look:... There is no interrogation in his eyes Or in the hands, quiet over the horse's neck, And the eyes watchful, waiting, perceiving indifferent. O hidden under the dover's wing, hidden in the turtle's breast....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspection... and interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[One cannot express lack of knowledge in affirmative language.] This idea is more firmly grasped in the form of interrogation: "Wh...at do I know?"Mthe words I bear as a motto, inscribed over a pair of scales.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two opposing values--"good and bad" and "good and evil"Mhave waged a terrible battle on earth for thousands of years, and even... though the latter value has been prevailing for a long time there remain places where the battle is as yet undecided. It might even be said that it has been raised to ever higher levels in the process and that as a result it has become ever more profound, ever more spiritual: so that nowadays there is perhaps no more decisive mark of a "higher nature," a more spiritual nature, than being ambivalently divided in this sense and literally a battleground for these opposites. The symbol of this struggle, written in characters which have remained legible throughout human history, is "Rome against Judaea, Judaea against Rome":Mup to now there has been no greater event than this battle, this interrogation, this deadly contradiction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The double nature of the comic hero is symbolized in these two: Falstaff and Socrates. They are of opposite disposition, yet not s...o unlike as we might think. The essential character of the eiron is incarnate in Socrates, who was "ignorant" and who also had the disposition of the "buffoon" or "fool," the features of the comic spirit itself, the coarse, ugly mask of the satyr or clown. The Socratic method is a tactic of winning victory by professing ignorance, by merely asking questions of the "imposters," the so-called "wise" men of Athens.... We must remember that Falstaff the buffoon and imposter used the same sort of interrogation Socrates the ironist used. He asks the same sort of question: What is honor? Socrates asked: What is justice? Socrates, like Falstaff, is both ironist and buffoon; he is the questioner using a philosophic buffoonery to seek the truth.... He has a double or triple character, for he is, as Falstaff was, both victor and victim--a victim, eventually, of the unthinking Athenians who refused to have their creed unsettled. He was finally condemned to drink the hemlock because he asked too many impious questions. And Falstaff is rejected by King Hal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cot we shared is almost a prison where I can't say buttercup, bobolink,... sugarduck, pumpkin, love ribbon, locket, valentine, summergirl, funnygirl and all those nonsense things one says in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street... so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »