Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist
1945 - 1970, A Report on the Wall' 1970
Source: undated quotes, Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003,' (2004), p. 26.
Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist
1945 - 1970, A Report on the Wall' 1970
William Beveridge Beveridge Report
Pt. 1, 8
Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942)
Context: Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.
“The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.
Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker
The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
Context: We move from part to whole and back again, and in that dance of comprehension, in that amazing circle of understanding, we come alive to meaning, to value, and to vision: the very circle of understanding guides our way, weaving together the pieces, healing the fractures, mending the torn and tortured fragments, lighting the way ahead — this extraordinary movement from part to whole and back again, with healing the hallmark of each and every step, and grace the tender reward.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
5th Public Talk Saanen (26th July 1970); also in "Fear and Pleasure", The Collected Works, Vol. X
1970s
Context: Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe? Do you decide and say, "I am going to observe and learn"? For then there is the question: "Who is deciding?" Is it will that says, "I must"? And when it fails, it chastises itself further and says, "I must, must, must"; in that there is conflict; therefore the state of mind that has decided to observe is not observation at all. You are walking down the road, somebody passes you by, you observe and you may say to yourself, "How ugly he is; how he smells; I wish he would not do this or that". You are aware of your responses to that passer-by, you are aware that you are judging, condemning or justifying; you are observing. You do not say, "I must not judge, I must not justify". In being aware of your responses, there is no decision at all. You see somebody who insulted you yesterday. Immediately all your hackles are up, you become nervous or anxious, you begin to dislike; be aware of your dislike, be aware of all that, do not "decide" to be aware. Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" — there is only observation taking place. The "observer" exists only when you accumulate in the observation; when you say, "He is my friend because he has flattered me", or, "He is not my friend, because he has said something ugly about me, or something true which I do not like." That is accumulation through observation and that accumulation is the observer. When you observe without accumulation, then there is no judgement.
Kage Baker book The Children of the Company
Source: The Children of the Company (2005), Chapter 2, “Victor the Poisoner” (p. 89)
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
Dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
Judicial opinions
Marlon Brando (1924–2004) American screen and stage actor
Rolling Stone Issue No. 213 (May 20, 1976) on Elia Kazan