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“Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.”

Long Feelings Courses Serious Higher Exercise Activity Discovery Originals Silent Invention Flash Cultivation

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.”

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.”

Should Trying Government Pay Serious Higher Currents Opposition Healthcare Cuban

Author:Saul Landau

“Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.”

Art Use Purpose Artist Deals Fashion Objects Serious Higher Art Is Sacred Severe Employed

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.”

“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.”

People Ifs Soul Enough Values Mistake Moral Serious Higher Perception Ordinary Dignity Technique Idiot Sensitive Bitterness Scream Ordinary People

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.”

Thinking Years Long Helping Might Heaven Quality Greater Alive Teaching Serious Higher Intellectual Research Resources Exciting Folks Active Academic Prestige Intellectual Life

Author:Nicholas Lemann

“Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation.”

Trying Government Policy Serious Higher Demand Credit Outcomes Rising Expansion Unemployment Wages Inflation Emergence Government Policy Rising Prices

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses