Imaginary Inpho

Part Three Quote While the critic held sway ... art degenerated to entertainment ...

Part Two Quote The realm of poetry does not lie outside the world, a fantastic impossibility, the product of a poet's mind; it wishes to be precisely the opposite of this, the unadorned expression of truth, and must for that very reason cast off the menda…

Part One Quote The most accomplished, most beautiful, most universally envied race of mankind, those most capable of seducing us into life — [the Greeks] were the ones who needed tragedy?

Introduction Quote ... today I find it an impossible book — badly written, clumsy and embarrassing, its images frenzied and confused,... but a book which, as its impact has shown and continues to show, has a strange knack of seeking out its fellow-revelle…

Conclusion Quote The present age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason, and the present generation will appear to the future as the Adam of a new world.

Part Two Quote We have it in our power to begin the world over again ...

Part One Quote A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

Introduction Quote The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the inner and the outer world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by mind at large —…

Conclusion Quote In The Social Contract, [Rousseau] is himself taking on the role of the legislator; he is the "great man" who can discern what the masses cannot, and he can comfortably leave its execution in other hands. - Susan Wise Bauer Notes 🔥 One big