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Rudolf Arnheim has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at…
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like…
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Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees…
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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it…
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the…
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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to…
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Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to…
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Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have…
— Richard Dawkins
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
— William Hazlitt
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
— Edward Gibbon
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Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
— Barbara Tuchman
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
— John Cheever
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns…
— Gerald Heaney
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets…
— Walter Bagehot
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer,…
— William Hurt
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes…
— Nick Harkaway
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