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“What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.”

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John Ruskin was an influential British art critic, writer, and social critic. Known for his profound insights into art, architecture, and social issues, he had a significant impact on the aesthetics and culture of the Victorian era. more

“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.”

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.”

World Universe Imagination Steps Imagine Greatness Masters Shapes Expecting Plastic Novelty Exaggeration Remakes Strangeness Exaggerating Exaggeration Is Expecting More

Book:The Image

Source: The Image

“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”

Today Science Artist Imagination Technology Function Myth

Author:Cyril Connolly

“The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.”

Knows Imagination Quality Raised Glasses Substance Fancy Reaching Judged Sugar Candy Homely

Book:Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine

Source: Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine

“'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'”

Ifs Mind Said Matter Imagination Sleep Ideals Calm Sublime Chamber Whispering Howl Wigs Immensity Vortex Mind And Matter

Author:Charles Dickens

“The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state”

States Purpose Ultimate Bureaucracy

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1843-44

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1843-44

“Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.”

Spiritual Enemy Regard Spiritual Life Bureaucracy Autonomous

Book:Once Around the Sun

Source: Once Around the Sun

“Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.”

Doe Government Quality Quantity Bureaucracy

Book:The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the

Source: The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the

“By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.”

Giving May Littles Left Principles Effects Finished Documents Bureaucracy Drafting Civil Service

Author:John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

“Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.”

Self Play Speak Interest Tongue Bureaucracy Self Interest

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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