The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
“There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.” — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
“Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
