Monday, January 1, 2007

Aphorisms

  • He changes the world most who lives in it best.
  • Intelligence is moral courage.
  • The fact is a detail of the miracle.
  • A great passion leads itself home by the hand.
  • The universe is the scale of scales.
  • The milk of peace is sweet but its dregs are bitter war.
  • A man who is part of the whole is a whole man.
  • Belief separates the believer from the object of belief.
  • God is the ceaseless shock of the real.
  • A man is a heart and a heart is a fist banging on heaven.
  • A man is he who leaves his mother and adopts is his own body of experience to be his new mother.
  • [My brother, on God] “Toasters were invented: they exist.”
  • The real world is real because anything can happen.
  • Courage mediates between faith and will.
  • Death is God's way of saying: "You don't really want to know."
  • Our souls are formed by our acts.
  • Losers envy, winners admire.
  • A longing heart makes for a long memory.
  • Reason has more need of faith than faith of reason.
  • Compassion needs no conscience; conscience needs no law.
  • Good memory is a function of honesty.
  • Without limits all hope is vain.
  • An innuendo is an accusation made by a coward.
  • The world will never suit those who strive to make it better.
  • A ton of doubt and a feather of faith is a ton of faith.
  • There is only one here and its time is always now.
  • Our souls are the sums of our aspirations.
  • You can’t humiliate a humble man.
  • To imagine a world without adversity is to suffer.
  • Loving everyone is loving no one.
  • Resistance proves leadership.
  • A tyrant sows in the soil of kindness and reaps in the name of justice.

ART AND CULTURE
  • Art is revelation, not furniture.
  • A masterpiece is a marriage of truth and fact.
  • The avant-garde is a bridge-head—not a bridge-burning.
  • Art is a commitment to a self-transcending content.
  • In "political art galleries" there is neither art nor politics.
  • To be moved by a work of art is to understand it.
  • The sentence, "everything is political," is also political.
  • No functioning system is arbitrary.
  • There is no abstraction without representation, and vice-versa.
  • Art is the entertainment of virtue.
  • Tragedy is a death that threatens the death of meaning.
  • I've been told a lot about journalism.
  • I don't like "People's Poetry": I am committed to a poetry of the mouses.
  • Discovery is recognition.
  • Boredom is the herald of insight and accomplishment.

© 200, 2007 Dan Goorevitch

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