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"Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth."
"It was Stieglitz's endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities - to translate this world of blind touch into sight."
"The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them."
"This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid."
"Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence."
"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."
"The self holds both a hell and a heaven."
"If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you."
"In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction."
"If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul."
"Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship."
"The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans."
"Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men."
"One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals."
"Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved."