
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)
Extract from Prison Diaries, published in The Guardian, 2006
Music and politics
“The admiration of the beautiful always has relation to the Divinity.”
Pt. 4, ch. 1
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
Original: (fr) L'admiration pour le beau se rapporte toujours à la Divinité.
“Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.”
Source: On Work And Money
“One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love”
Source: The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy
Creation Myths (1972), Deus Faber
Context: Always at bottom there is a divine revelation, a divine act, and man has only had the bright idea of copying it. That is how the crafts all came into existence and is why they all have a mystical background. In primitive civilizations one is still aware of it, and this accounts for the fact that generally they are better craftsmen than we who have lost this awareness. If we think that every craft, whether carpenter's or smith's or weaver's, was a divine revelation, then we understand better the mystical process which certain creation myths characterize as God creating the world like a craftsman. By creating the world through such a craft he manifests a secret of his own mysterious skill.