The Dance Is The Mother Of All

Like Other Revolutionaries I Can Thank God For The Reactionaries. They Clarify The Issue.

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.

To Regard Such A Positive Mental Science [psychology] As Rising Above The Sphere Of History, And Establishing The Permanent And Unchanging Laws Of Human Nature, Is Therefore Possible Only To A Person Who Mistakes The Transient Conditions Of A Certain Historical Age For The Permanent Conditions Of Human Life.

The Dance Is The Mother Of All Languages.

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.