The Dance Is The Mother Of All

As A Child Growing Up Among Artists I Learned To Think Of A Picture Not As A Finished Product Exposed For The Admiration Of The Virtuosi, But As The Visible Record, Lying About The House, Of An Attempt To Solve A Definite Problem In Painting.

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.

The Chief Business Of Seventeenth-century Philosophy Was To Reckon With Seventeenth-century Science... The Chief Business Of Twentieth-century Philosophy Is To Reckon With Twentieth-century History.

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.