“The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is being swept along by great drifts of circumstance. Yet these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes, by unnamed powers.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsMindWarTodayBehindsMysteryOughtCitizensCircumstancesSceneTaxesAffairInvisibleManageAwakeAffectedRegulationDeafConvincingSpectatorsBehind The ScenesPublic AffairsRules And Regulations Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“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
“Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.” PeopleWorldShouldTryingStoriesShowsCoursesFunJusticeViewsNovelAliveMysteryOughtOffersHungerBeing TrueDetectivesOrderlyMystery NovelsStealthDetective Stories Book:Thrones, Dominations Source: Thrones, Dominations
“I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close the book and feel that the world is back in order and everything's all right. I want the reader to know that the world is not all right, and maybe we ought to do something about it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantFeelsShouldBelieveBookBigsLyingOrderNovelMysteryOughtReaderMurderDon't BelieveMystery Novels Author:George Pelecanos
“The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.” NeedsNumbersSecretMysteryOughtPropertyAcquisition Author:Boethius
“We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.” KnowsMaySoulGodUniverseThreeFatherDoubtPlansMysteryDivineOughtSolutionsAll ThingsSublimeCompensationGod Is LoveThree WordsGreat Father Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.” IfsHumansHas BeensNamesEmotionMysteryConditionsOughtPermanentHuman ConditionKitsch Author:Roger Scruton