“Education is a set of analogies to a genuinely human existence, of which the arts are the model. Merely human life is of course a demonic analogy or parody of genuinely human life.”
Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 149
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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991Related quotes
“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”
"The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 16
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“The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.”
Source: 1930s, Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 349.
Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).
“Life is too complicated to use analogies to describe it.”
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
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"Anarchism and homicidal outrage" in What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction by Donald Rooum, ed. (London: Freedom Press, 1992, 1995) p. 43.
Context: The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon every destruction, every mutilation of a human being, physical or moral. He loathes wars, executions and imprisonments, the grinding down of the worker's whole nature in a dreary round of toil, the sexual and economic slavery of women, the oppression of children, the crippling and poisoning of human nature by the preventable cruelty and injustice of man to man in every shape and form.