Seeing

March 11th, 2006

We see nothing till we truly understand it.
John Constable

Cruelty

March 10th, 2006

All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca

True Religion

March 9th, 2006

It is a prove of the true, rightly understood true religion, that she brings us back to the beautiful.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Nature

March 7th, 2006

They who have presumed to dogmatize on Nature, as on some well-investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philosophy and learning.
Francis Bacon

Art

March 6th, 2006

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
Bernard Berenson

Fiction

March 4th, 2006

It just doesn’t feel like standing and watching while a tsunami is bearing down on you, which is how the nonfiction feels to me.
David Foster Wallace

Play

March 3rd, 2006

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Johan Huizinga

Travel

March 2nd, 2006

lat. peregrinus - the stranger
lat. peregrinator - the traveller

Images

March 1st, 2006

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
Johan Huizinga

Interpretations

February 28th, 2006

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche