
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”
The History of the Worthies of England (1662): Musicians.
The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”
The History of the Worthies of England (1662): Musicians.
Source: Civilisation (1969), Ch. 1: The Skin of Our Teeth
A Heritage of Stars (1977)
Context: Space is an illusion, and time as well. There is no such factor as either time or space. We have been blinded by our own cleverness, blinded by false perceptions of those qualities that we term eternity and infinity. There is another factor that explains it all, and once this universal factor is recognized, everything grows simple. There is no longer any mystery, no longer any wonder, no longer any doubt; for the simplicity of it all lies before us...
1940s, The Bomb and Civilization http://personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Philosophy/RBwritings/bombCivilization.htm (1945)
As quoted in After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Post War Germany (1997) by Michael Brenner
First State of the Union Address (30 January 1961)
1961, State of the Union
“All the objective conditions are present here in the Black Colony for revolution.”
Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 24
Speech "The Tasks of Economic Executives" (4 February 1931) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/TEE31.html Stalin said this in 1931, at the beginning of the rapid industrialization campaign. Ten years later, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews