It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
My heartbeat keeps me alive. Your heartbeat lets me know I'm alive. Our heartbeats give me the reason to live.
Finally,” Lilith said, smiling warmly at her. “A reasonable angel.” “I’m no angel,” Eleanore quietly insisted. “Yes, you are,” said every man in the room.
Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and .
Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.
I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.
At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us. —Brighton Hayes
Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.
