"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own……" — Rudolf Arnheim
"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living."
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38 Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim
Rudolf Arnheim has 38 quotes on this site.
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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…
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
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Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked…
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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.…
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
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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…
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Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a…
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Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of…
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More Abandon Quotes
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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