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“Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, By some not unfrequented Garden-side.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Man is a cup, his soul the wine therein, Flesh is a pipe, spirit the voice therein, O Khayyam have you fathomed what man is? A magic lantern with a light therein.”

— Omar Khayyam

“He brought me hither to my great surprise From life I gather but a dark surmise; I go perforce. Why come? Why live? Why go? I ask these questions, but find no replies.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.”

— John Dewey

“But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained…”

— John Dewey

“Freedom of thought and of expression are not mere rights to be claimed. They have their roots deep in the existence of individuals as developing careers in time. Their denial and…”

— John Dewey

“Surrender of individuality by the many to someone who is taken to be a superindividual explains the retrograde movement of society.”

— John Dewey

“Form may then be defined as the operation of forces that carry the experience of an event, object, scene, and situation to its own integral fulfillment.”

— John Dewey

“We cannot grasp any idea, any organ of meditation, we cannot possess it in full force, until we have felt and sensed it, as much so as if it were an odor or a color.”

— John Dewey

“When there is genuine artistry in scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, a thinker proceeds neither by rule nor yet blindly, but by means of meaning that exist…”

— John Dewey

“Works of art express space as opportunity for movement and action.”

— John Dewey

“All the cases in which means and ends are external to one another are non-esthetic.”

— John Dewey

“Artist and perceiver alike begin with what may be called a total seizure, an inclusive qualitative whole not yet articulated, not distinguished into members.”

— John Dewey

“What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?”

— Louis Sullivan

“The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of…”

— Louis Sullivan

“The French have a saying: "Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored." Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true.”

— Louis Sullivan

“The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain — in the people.”

— Louis Sullivan

“I am of those who believe that gentleness is a greater, surer power than force, and that sympathy is a safer power by far than is intellect.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Unceasingly the essence of things is taking shape in the matter of things, and this unspeakable process we call birth and growth.”

— Louis Sullivan

“Where function does not change form does not change.”

— Louis Sullivan

“I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate.”

— Louisa May Alcott