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“Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.”

Art Education Lessons Ordinary Affair

Book:The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

Source: The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

“My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.”

Care Spiritual Water Wealth Honor Activity Conflict Ordinary Harmony Shining Affair Obstacles Woods Drawing Rejects Who Cares Miraculous Poorest

Author:Layman Pang

“The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.”

Past Differences Moral Judgment Ordinary Affair Practicals Reactions Contemporary Historian Provoking Implications Narrators Moral Judgment

Author:Geoffrey Barraclough

“The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.”

Men Book Government Simple Ordinary Complexes Affair Ill Practicals Historian Mentor Practical Life

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”

Thinking Mind Together Used Simple Emotion Consciousness Color Speech Perception Ordinary Weight Embrace Complexes Including Affair Sensations Items Texture Psychologist

Author:Jacques Barzun

“[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.”

Needs Giving Ends Reality Names Can Do Ordinary Extraordinary Affair Invisible Ritual Artificial Gestures Costumes Vocabulary Assurance Astonishing Solemn Props Scenery Unification

Author:Barbara Myerhoff

“He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.”

World Wisdom Would Be This World Ordinary Direct Affair Intelligence Demonstration Perishing

Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed.”

“Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.”

Men Philosophy Bed Ordinary Affair Neglect Maids Odyssey Suitors

Author:Gorgias

“To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others...If even the harshest of critics tacitly adopt these premises, then the ordinary person may ask, who am I to disagree?”

“General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.”

Men Should Wells Doubt Judging Ordinary Capacity Affair Ignorant No Doubt Old Man Uneducated Public Affairs

Author:James K. Polk

“The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.”

Humans Persons States Government Individual Normal Ordinary Abuse Affair Tyranny Arbitrary Compulsion Coercion Ordinary Person

Author:Walter E. Williams

“In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.”

Matter Facts Would Be Ordinary Evidence Affair Productions Absurd Matter Of Fact Unreasonable Inconsistent

Book:An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus

Source: An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus

“Real Life - the real life of joy we are meant to be living - begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.”

Heart Real Today Joy Gratitude Ordinary Sacred Affair Real Life Meant To Be Reverence

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.”

“One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.”

Knows Men Wells Looks May Children Littles Home Joy Interest Wife Minutes Ordinary Fellows Assuming Affair Practicals Elsewhere Trusted One Minute Jogging Live And Let Live

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

“The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.”

Littles Persons Political Politics Nations Offers Ordinary Experience Difficulty Affair

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.”

“The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not in pursuit of the ideal of health in any direct sense. The doctor on the other hand wants to discover the pathological condition and control it if he can. The two are thus to some degree at cross purposes from the first, and unless the affair is brought to an early and happy conclusion this diversion of aims is likely to become more and more serious as the case goes on.”

“As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.”

Men Life Ideas Philosophy Break Practice Wise Feet Example Laughter Ordinary Affair Clouds Philosopher Useless Measuring Ordinary Life Fleas Oracles Humming Break Off Marveling Midges

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”

People Men Reality Too Much Ordinary Affair Brilliant Greek Misfortunes Ordinary Man

Author:Thucydides