“Virtue is not a chemical product...it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key.” IfsMeanCareValuesLiteratureLostLanguageVirtueProductsKeysMoralityCeaseChemicalsMeaninglessHistoricTransmit Author:Lewis Mumford
“In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.” ThinkingWritingMeanFactsTheoryComfortableFavorsCeaseSquaresInquiryVery Mean Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.” PeopleWayFirstsHumansMeanArtOrderPleasureFailingConditionsCommunicationArt IsCeaseHuman LifeReflectingFine ArtsEffective Communication Author:Leo Tolstoy