“Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.” MeanChildrenArtHumanityUniverseLeftCommunityEmotionMysteryBearsOughtRelationHarmonyOur ChildrenCurrentsSeparationObservationInterpretationArt And ScienceStrandedEarly EducationStammering Author:Dora Russell
“To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.” HelpingBeautifulRealizingMysteryEssenceHarmonyBeautiful ThingsUglinessEssence Of LifeConsonance Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.” GivenPerfectPoorNumbersMysteryColdHonorTraditionOrganizationHarmonyLoyaltyAwfulVarietyDespisedRegularityBatteredGargoylesCalculators Book:The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays Source: The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays
“When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.” WorldLongWholeStoriesEarthFormLife IsIndividualGreaterOur LivesMysteryChildhoodMovementExpressionSeasonsHarmonyLimitationParenthoodGravityIndividual LifeMaleness Author:Jack Kornfield