2000s, God Bless America (2008), The American Proposition
“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
A Prescription for Hope (1985)
Context: If we are to succeed, this vision must possess millions of people. We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future. Only life itself can lay claim to sacred continuity. The magnitude of the danger and its imminence must bring the human family together in common pursuit of peace denied throughout the century. On the threshold of a new millennium the achievement of world peace is no longer remote, for it is beckoned by the unleashing of the deepest spiritual forces embedded in humankind when threatened with extinction. The reason, the creativeness, and the courage that human beings possess foster an abiding faith that what humanity creates, humanity can and will control.
“Only by being cultivated does a human being … become altogether human and permeated by humanity.”
Nur durch die Bildung wird der Mensch, der es ganz ist überall menschlich und von Menschheit durchdrungen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 65
“The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”
Richter.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
“Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.”
'Men for Others' http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/men-for-others.html, 1973, Valencia, Spain
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2001), p. 258
An Exhortation to Learning
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246
To which the answer is, I would have thought, boring, bordering on pointless.
Think Like an Artist (2015)
