Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our dis...contents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when percei...ved, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful--in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason--and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express ...themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state offic...ers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the c...onditions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and m...ingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, im...agination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.... We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it.--Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »