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“An intelligent home differs from an unintelligent one chiefly in that the habits of life and intercourse which prevail are chosen, or at least colored, by the thought of their bearing upon the development of children.”
― Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
― Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
“Nowadays a long Romantic tradition has caused us to think of poets as private dreamers, ill-adapted to social intercourse and the horrors of a materialist world but thereby guardians of value and the messengers of our common soul. In 1711 François senior would have viewed a young poet as a modern parent might view an aspirant television celebrity.”
― Voltaire Almighty
― Voltaire Almighty
“When we analyse the picture into a large number of particles of paint, we lose the aesthetic significance of the picture. The particles of paint go into the scientific inventory, and it is claimed that everything that there really was in the picture is kept. But this way of keeping a thing may be much the same as losing it. The essence of a picture (as distinct from the paint) is arrangement.”
― The Nature of the Physical World
― The Nature of the Physical World
“The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.”
― The Nature of the Physical World
― The Nature of the Physical World
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