“The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.” IfsThinkingPersonsImportantLove IsPleasureExpressionHighestImportant ThingsDevotionSensualityLove Each OtherShort TimeRevive Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression.” ThinkingImportantExpressionImportant Things Author:John Dyer Baizley
“It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.” LifeImportantStudentsCollegeSeriousExpressionImportant ThingsCreditMonkeysSeriousnessCollege Students Author:Robert M. Hutchins
“Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question.” PeopleMenBelieveHas BeensImportantDoneTodayAsksI BelieveCreativityDestinyTechnologyDoubtExpressionWallImportanceImportant ThingsJazzProofDestroyedSpoonsEpochGraffitiWooden Spoons Author:Orson Welles
“I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.” IfsWayWritingImportantIdeasSchoolLanguageRealizingTechnologyCollegeExpressionCommunicationImportant ThingsClarityEvolveStraightforwardGradGrad School Author:Elif Batuman