“The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.” ThinkingTryingDoeSimpleAcceptingStruggleConflictSolutionsTragedyConstantComplexityMatureSomberConstant StruggleSimple Solutions Book:Letters Home Source: Letters Home
“Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.” ThinkingMenFeelsSaidLife IsValuesDealsSituationAcceptingComedyAcceptanceEmotionalHe ManIntellectualNegativeCriticismLogicTragedyAffairLimitationRidicule Author:James Kern Feibleman
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.” ShouldYearsMindBelieveChildrenPainAcceptingTeachFantasyTaughtTerribleTruth IsMiracleTragedyMythLibertarianPoeticSuperstitionsTerrible ThingsFablesRelieved Author:Hypatia
“Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men, refusing to admit that these organizational structures are needed, live in states of chaos and disunity. The tragedy of this fact becomes evident when we realize that many of the successful systems of organization under which the godly men work and which the godly men refuse to accept are biblically based.” MenStatesFactsTogetherRealizingAcceptingSuccessfulNeededOrganizationTragedyHarmonyStructureUnityChaosRefuseWorking TogetherPermitRelativeEvidentGodlyOrganizationalGodly ManDisunityOrganizational Structure Author:Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom