People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism,… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
