Mechanical Instruments, Potentially A Vehicle Of Rational

The Convenience Of Timekeeping Is Greatly Overrated; And The People Who Practice It So Faithfully That They Lose The Capacity For Appreciating The Fixed And The Static And The Spatially Related Experiences Cut Themselves Off From A Good Part Of Reality.

When Art Seems To Be Empty Of Meaning, As No Doubt Some Of The Abstract Painting Of Our Own Day Actually Does Seem, What The Painting Says, Indeed What The Artist Is Shrieking At The Top Of His Voice, Is That Life Has Become Empty Of All Rational Content And Coherence, And That, In Times Like These, Is Far From A Meaningless Statement.

The Fact That Order And Creativity Are Complementary Has Been Basic To Man's Cultural Development; For He Has To Internalize Order To Be Able To Give External Form To His Creativity.

The Cities And Mansions That People Dream Of Are Those In Which They Finally Live.

By His Very Success In Inventing Labor-saving Devices, Modern Man Has Manufactured An Abyss Of Boredom That Only The Privileged Classes In Earlier Civilizations Have Ever Fathomed.