“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.” Has BeensIdeasCharacterMightMovingIndividualFiguresMovementIntellectualClimateClubsNarrativeSubtleInterpretationEntertainingMinorsSensibilityPortraitsMetaphysicalMight Have BeenColorfulIlluminatingMilieuAstute Author:George Scialabba
“But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.” ArtIndividualBearsShapesAppearanceInventionObjectivesWitnessVarietyDimensionsInterpretationOutlookExploitsValidity Book:Visual Thinking Source: Visual Thinking
“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.” WellsGovernmentFightingIndividualNationsTermResultsInterpretationMisunderstanding Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!” DifferentStoriesIndividualLeftGenerationsJourneyFiguresSolitudeMythInterpretationLegendsMetaphoricalIndividual LifePrevious GenerationsSignpostsPersonal Journey Author:Fred Van Lente
“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.” PeopleMenHumansFactsSpiritIndividualTermCommunityTeamLandEventsTaughtMembersIntellectualEthicsConceptsHistoricalEnterpriseInterpretationInteractionPenetratePremisesEcologicalIntellectual LifeHistorical Events Author:Aldo Leopold