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“Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?”

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Book:Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

Source: Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

“What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.”

Life Process Existence Materials Mere Philosopher Productions Substance Spheres Consumption Autonomy

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.”

Life Kind Art Artist Values Order Materials Source Art Is Relation Endless Mediums Organize Selection Arbitrary Symbolic Coherence Intricacy Inclusiveness

Author:Jane Jacobs

“If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.”

Ifs Life Art Artist Values Materials Shapes Finest Clay Statues Marble Prometheus

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.”

Ifs Life Christian Life Is Doubt Information Materials Dancing Christian Life No Doubt Daring Biblical

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?”

Life Use Materials Hero Unlikely

Author:Vladimir Nabokov