“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
Teacher in America (1945)
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“Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history.”
Source: Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940), III
Context: Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past — which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation à l'ordre du jour — and that day is Judgement Day.
“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”
Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”
The Fourfold Way of India (1924); this has become paraphrased as "Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend."
“Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.”
To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.
undated quotes, The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962-1993)
Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. xi
