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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in…
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to…
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The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular…
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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public…
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have…
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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always…
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
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The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
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Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to…
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Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more…
— Gary Snyder
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If you can imagine it, you can create it. That beautiful world you dream about, needs positive action to come true.
— Leon Brown
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I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more…
— Rajneesh
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Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.
— William C. Bryant
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From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.…
— E. O. Wilson
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Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether…
— Richard Branson
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Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As…
— Max Ehrmann
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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry…
— David Lynch
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It's a sad and beautiful world.
— Jim Jarmusch
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Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
— Helen Keller
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Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
— Gautama Buddha
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See yourself and others through the eyes of an angel and you will see a beautiful world that is light, bright, and…
— Doreen Virtue
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