Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if t...he highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what--eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of liv...ing longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise wh...o are not ridiculously otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession of... a police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother.... Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance ...is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the oth...ers are useless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry presents indivisible wholes of human consciousness, modified and ordered by the stringent requirements of form. Prose, aimi...ng at a definite and concrete goal, generally suppresses everything inessential to its purpose; poetry, existing only to exhibit itself as an aesthetic object, aims only at completeness and perfection of form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of political... discourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were the ... requirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibil...ities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new.... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.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 »