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“The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.”

Humans Art Real Purpose Artist Human Beings Successful Produce Capable Productive Free Society Art Education Purpose Of Art Productive Life

Author:Dana Gioia

“For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.”

Source: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925

“The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.”

Humans Spirit Human Beings Produce Unions Life And Death

Author:Kathleen Dowling Singh

“There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.”

Men Humans Made Happiness Three Human Beings Security Produce Materials Men And Women Fundamentals Minimum Being Me Human Happiness Faith And Love Happiness Love

Book:My Days

Source: My Days

“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.”

“In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.”

“All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.”

“What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.”

Ifs Humans Reason Use Action Human Beings Beauty Teach Produce Taste Appreciate Mathematics Proof Rational Aesthetics Calculations Assessment Good Taste

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'”

Ifs Feels Humans Next Human Beings Tree Produce Crisis Insane Existential Rotten Oaks Existential Crisis Acorns Oak Tree

Author:Adyashanti

“When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.”

Humans Seems Human Beings Produce Television Machines Protagonists

Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.”

World Needs Humans Two Problem Turns Human Beings Attention Week Produce Productions Goods Leisure Two Days

Author:Julian Huxley