Animals Are Good To Think With.

The Musical Emotion Springs Precisely From The Fact That At Each Moment The Composer Withholds Or Adds More Or Less Than The Listener Anticipates On The Basis Of A Pattern That He Thinks He Can Guess, But That He Is Incapable Of Wholly Divining. If The Composer Withholds More Than We Anticipate, We Experience A Delicious Falling Sensation; We Feel We Have Been Torn From A Stable Point On The Musical Ladder And Thrust Into The Void. When The Composer Withholds Less, The Opposite Occurs: He Forces Us To Perform Gymnastic Exercises More Skillful Than Our Own.

The Dogma Of Cultural Relativism Is Challenged By The Very People For Whose Moral Benefit The Anthropologists Established It In The First Place. The Complaint The Underdeveloped Countries Advance Is Not That They Are Being Westernized, But That The Westernization Is Proceeding Too Slowly.

Not All Poisonous Juices Are Burning Or Bitter Nor Is Everything Which Is Burning And Bitter Poisonous.

[serialism] Is Like A Sailless Ship, Driven Out To Sea By Its Captain, Who Has Grown Tired Of Its Being Used Only As A Pontoon, And Who Is Privately Convinced That By Subjecting Life Aboard To The Rules Of An Elaborate Protocol, He Will Prevent The Crew From Thinking Nostalgically Either Of Their Home Port Or Of Their Ultimate Destination.…

Freedom Is Neither A Legal Invention Nor A Philosophical Conquest, The Cherished Possession Of Civilizations More Valid Than Others Because They Alone Have Been Able To Create Or Preserve It. It Is The Outcome Of An Objective Relationship Between The Individual And The Space He Occupies, Between The Consumer And The Resources At His Disposal.