From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession. — 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
