The mouth of a canon is less dangerous than that of a scandalmonger.
The voice of the people is louder than the boom of a canon.
I kind of love that there's not really a feminist canon; or maybe there is, but it's being changed, that it's a constantly moving canon in the feminist blogosphere. I love that.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play wit...
Although social and personal circumstances will play their part in contributing to how an individual suffers, in Buddhist thought blame is seen as a "poison" that will only lead to negative actions and will do nothing to reduce suffering.
On the other hand, inspiration - a criterion for canonization we might expect to play a great role - is not a factor. The Shepherd of Hermas and many writings either claimed inspiration or had it claimed for them, yet were neither universally nor ult...
The repercussion of ugliness is endless.
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasur...
...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.
The canon is an artifact of revelation, not an object of revelation itself. It is known infallibly to God by necessity and to man with a certainty directly related to God's purpose in giving the Word to the church. The canon exists because God has in...
The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause. It is the designation as religiously canonical of any conception of the material world open to scientific investigation....As a matter of fact, most of the dogmatic religions ha...
I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.
You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.
Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
