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“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”
― Brecht on Theatre
― Brecht on Theatre
“It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.”
― Speak
― Speak
“Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.”
― The Art of Listening
― The Art of Listening
“There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied.”
― Violence in the Arts
― Violence in the Arts
“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.”
― On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
― On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
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