“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.” IfsMindIdeasEndsOrderIndividualPleasureParticularElementsDirectRelationStriveSensesReactionsColourSensibilityOrganizeFormalTextureApprehensionSensuous Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.” WantMadeIndividualDifferencesQualityClassIgnoranceAmountMembersEssentialsOppositesPrejudiceCarefulBe CarefulYou ChooseOrganizeVagueFlexibleResemblanceClassificationIgnorance And Prejudice Author:Barrows Dunham
“Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.” WorldIndividualVoiceCompanyEssentialsInstitutionsChaosControlledOrganizeLarge Companies Author:Martin Parr
“Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.” ReasonScienceReligionIndividualReligiousPartyLibertyMoralVirtueCommunicationSpeechDiversityPhilosophicalPressesFruitPursuitRecognitionArtisticOppositionAssociationSkepticismOrganizeInquiryPublishDissentCivil LibertiesReligious FreedomFreedom Of The PressIndividual RightsFree PressFree ThoughtOpposition Parties Book:In defense of secular humanism Source: In defense of secular humanism
“The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.” IndividualSocialGroupsIntentionPrivilegePortionsOrganizePretension Author:Reinhold Niebuhr