"Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson."
~ T. S. Eliot
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
~ T. S. Eliot
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition,alienated from religion,and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed,well clothed,well housed, and well disciplined. ~ T.S. Eliot
"If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks."
~ T. S. Eliot
"If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
~ T. S. Eliot
"I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say."
~ T. S. Eliot
"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
~ T. S. Eliot
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
~ T. S. Eliot
"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
~ T. S. Eliot
"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken..." Eliot
"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self."
~ T. S. Eliot
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“Greek myth placed Pan as god of nature.His original place,Arcadia,is both a physical and a psychic location.The “caves obscure” where he could be encountered were expanded as the material recesses where impulse resides,the dark holes of the psyche whence desire and panic arise.”
“His habitat in antiquity,like that of Faunus was always dells, grottos, water, woods, and wilds-ever villages, never the tilled and walled settlements of the civilized; cavern sanctuaries,not constructed temples. He was a shepherd’s god, a god of fishers and hunters, a wanderer”
... Reflection seems the aim as we proceed further through the list of Pan’s loves. For another was Eupheme, wet nurse to the Muses... Finally, the one who fully reveals Pan’s intention is Selene, goddess of the moon...
What is resistant to light, obscure and driven... turns white and reflective, able to see what is going on in the night... The whitening is not an askēsis of the goat. It is not that Pan now knows and so does not act out, but the action turns reflective.”
— James Hillman
“I strongly believe in the importance of the scientific approach. Yet...the sciences have lost much of their vigor, vitality and curiosity. Dogmatic ideology, fear-based conformity and institutional inertia are inhibiting scientific creativity.”
~ Rupert Sheldrake
“With scientific colleagues, I have been struck over and over again by the contrast between public and private discussions. In public, scientists are very aware of the powerful taboos that restrict the range of permissible topics; in private they are often more adventurous.” ~ RS
“...science is being held back by centuries-old assumptions that have hardened into dogmas...The biggest scientific delusion of all is that science already knows the answers. The details still need working out but, in principle, the fundamental questions are settled.” ~ Sheldrake
Deconstructivism is a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity,or symmetry.
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry
Architects whose work is often described as deconstructivist (though in many cases the architects themselves reject the label) include Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, and Coop Himmelb(l)au.
Seattle Central Library
Libeskind's Imperial War Museum North in Trafford, Greater Manchester (2002). An archetype of deconstructivist architecture, it comprises three fragmented, intersecting curved volumes, symbolizing the destruction of war.