Grab A Pen And Put Down Some

Look For All Fancy Wordings And Get Rid Of Themavoid All Terms And Expressions, Old Or New, That Embody Affectation.

On Reflection, Moral Judgment In The Arts Appears Rather As A Tribute To Their Power To Influence Emotion And Possibly Conduct. And Reflecting Further On What Some Critics Do Today, One Sees That A Good Many Have Merely Shifted The Ground Of Their Moralism, Transferring Their Impulse Of Righteousness To Politics And Social Issues.

To Denounce Does Not Free The Self From What It Hates, Any More Than Ignoring The Past Shuts Off Its Influence.

It Is Not Clear To Anyone, Least Of All The Practitioners, How Science And Technology In Their Headlong Course Do Or Should Influence Ethics And Law, Education And Government, Art And Social Philosophy, Religion And The Life Of The Affections. Yet Science Is An All-pervasive Energy, For It Is At Once A Mode Of Thought, A Source Of Strong Emotion, And A Faith As Fanatical As Any In History.

The One Thing That Unifies Men In A Given Age Is Not Their Individual Philosophies But The Dominant Problem That These Philosophies Are Designed To Solve.