Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on by the discrediting of objectivity is especially relevant to understanding the poem, because the problem of knowledge...
The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life whic...
What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so ...
The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left to work itself out to its extreme conclusion, one might expect to see the state transfo...
Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world around us without needing to be assured that our skill and our effort will somehow rid the world of injustice a...
Lefebvre summarises this march of clock-time through society and nature (1991: 95–6). He argues that the lived time experienced in and through nature has gradually disappeared. Time is no longer something that is visible and inscribed within space....
Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.
Interviewing is not a democratic art.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Art is I; science is we.
Extreme complication is contrary to art.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Art has to address eternal issues.
I don't want to be in an art bubble.
Art is the proper task of life.
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
Education is the art of making man ethical.
