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Philosophy in a New Key (1941)
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All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
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Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
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It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairy tales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
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A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of them.
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Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
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Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
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Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.
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As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Horace Mann
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Born:
December 20, 1895
Died:
July 17, 1985
(aged 89)
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