“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.” MenMayEnoughTodayChristObjectsHe ManEssentialsPhotographyWorshipPhotographerDocumentariesBest NatureDocumentary Photography Author:Aaron Siskind
“"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."” IfsMayArtReasonWould BeCryFieldsArmsPleaseEssentialsGardenAncientSpreadNobleEnthusiasmLionsGardeningEaglesLilies Author:Abraham Cowley
“Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.” PeopleMayChildrenSpiritSpiritualityUniverseEnergyForceParentLove IsQualityShareAcceptanceEssentialsCaringPartnersInherentUnconditionalBindingSpiritual AwarenessPossessiveParents LoveUnconditional AcceptancePossessive Love Author:Peter Shepherd
“There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.” MayFactsTroubleEssentialsOneselfInsanityStill Life With Woodpecker Book:Still Life with Woodpecker Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.” ShouldHumansMayImportantReasonIndividualForceDifficultGrowthPrinciplesDependsCivilizationProveEssentialsTasksLimitationBowsPreservationHuman Reason Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.” IfsMayChildrenSaidShowsFallCoursesLeftForcePoorPayRichEssentialsPercentCapitalismTasksSickIncreaseBurdenCaringCanadaOur SocietyStatisticsGapsFamily LifeDisabledCollisionChild CareWorking Life Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?” MayMatterEnvironmentStageHealthyEssentialsFunctionKillingSoilReasonableBroadsDestroyingBreaking DownInsectsMaintainingSpectrumCropsInsecticidesBurrowing Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.” HumansMayChildrenEvilHuman BeingsStepsCircumstancesEssentialsGoodnessReactionsFairnessAssociatesDecencyChild Of GodStep UpGreat Faith Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“Some of you may ask, ?Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God has enjoined upon the people, that he will excuse them from obeying?' Not one, no matter how trifling or small in our own estimation. No matter if we esteem them non-essential, or least or last of all the commandments of the house of God, we are under obligation to observe them.” PeopleIfsMayMatterLastsAsksHouseEssentialsExcuseObligationEsteemCommandmentsObeyingOrdinancesTriflingEstimationHouse Of God Author:Brigham Young
“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.” WritingMindHumansMayHas BeensStoriesSeemsFilmMotivationPrinciplesNovelProductsEssentialsRaisesSeriesContactAliensComplexityHuman MindFifthAmbiguityDelayedDisregarded Author:James Gunn