22 quotes found
“Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.”
“A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.”
“To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”
“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”
“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”
“Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.”
“Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of absolute government, operating under a once-divine king, they were restoring this same system in...”
“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create te...”
“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.”
“One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.”
“The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.”
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
“Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.”
“The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.”
“This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid. It is a world where the great masses of people, unable to have direct contact with mor...”
“The artist has a special task and duty the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.”
“The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.”
“Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for the training of a mere ...”
“Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for the training of a mere beg...”
