Intimates are predestined.
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
To trace the development of mind from earliest times. . . requires. . . not a categorical concept, but a functional one. . . . The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.
There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.
I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
Age simply doesn't enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy's face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it.