The Dance Is The Mother Of All

To The Scientist, Nature Is Always And Merely A 'phenomenon,' Not In The Sense Of Being Defective In Reality, But In The Sense Of Being A Spectacle Presented To His Intelligent Observation; Whereas The Events Of History Are Never Mere Phenomena, Never Mere Spectacles For Contemplation, But Things Which The Historian Looks, Not At, But Through, To Discern The Thought Within Them.

Parenthood Is Not An Object Of Appetite Or Even Desire. It Is An Object Of Will. There Is No Appetite For Parenthood; There Is Only A Purpose Or Intention Of Parenthood.

The Children Of Each Generation Are Taught To Want What They Are Taught They Must Not Have.

Art Has No Cosmology, It Gives Us No View Of The Universe; Every Distinct Work Of Art Gives Us A Little Cosmology Of Its Own, And No Ingenuity Will Combine All These Into A Single Whole.

If An Artist May Say Nothing Except What He Has Invented By His Own Sole Efforts, It Stands To Reason He Will Be Poor In Ideas. If He Could Take What He Wants Wherever He Could Find It, As Euripides And Dante And Michelangelo And Shakespeare And Bach Were Free, His Larder Would Always Be Full, And His Cookery Might Be Worth Tasting.