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“The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.”

Giving Stills Form Social Quality Models Artistic Our Time Spite Vitality Convincing Relevance

Author:Gyorgy Kepes

“Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of our air and water; and the provision of affirmative assistance to those who cannot assist themselves. True quality is absent if we allow social suffering to abide in an otherwise pristine environment.”

“As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.”

Men Feelings Age Asks Social Term Quality Genius Equal Fellows Acknowledge Generous Thrown Brotherhood Gifted Fellow Man Proverbial Fellow Feeling

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

Needs Values Given Social Quality Groups Depends Habit Members Aim Social Life Socialization

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.. ..The great secret.. .. is never to get stuck, imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life - the 'going onward' is all that matters, and the dead moments in one's life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really.”

Trying Made Real Matter Moments Social Common Secret Quality Possibility Concepts Patterns Stuck Units Rebirth Quality Of Life

Author:Marsden Hartley

“Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.”

Ifs Night Social Half Quality Talking Wind Authority Ocean Window Independence Institutions Accepted Sheep Shepherds Roaring

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.”

Important Law Social Ability Quality Arrangements Legal System

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

Ifs World Firsts Heart Important Ends Hands Political Values Individual Social Quality Products Program Structure Work Out Head And Heart Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Social Values

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.”

“When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.”

Way Needs Mean Moments Character Individual Social Quality Relation Satisfaction Recognition Abstract Isolated Concrete Commerce Abstraction Reciprocal Universality

Book:Hegel's Philosophy of right

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right

“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.”

Source: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society