There is no jesting with edge tools. ~ John Fletcher
- 3 Kalki 23:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 19:48, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Antiquary 22:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC). The connection with John Fletcher (and hence December 20) is rather loose, since he was only using a long-established proverb. The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs records it from 1510.
I looked, and, behold, a new world! There stood before me, visibly incorporate, all that I had before inferred, conjectured, dreamed, of perfect Circular beauty. What seemed the centre of the Stranger's form lay open to my view: yet I could see no heart, nor lungs, nor arteries, only a beautiful harmonious Something — for which I had no words; but you, my Readers in Spaceland, would call it the surface of the Sphere. ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott
- 3 Kalki 23:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 19:48, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 22:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. ~ David Bohm
- 2 Zarbon 15:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 02:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even 4, now that it is sourced.
This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back. ~ Tom Tancredo
- 3 Zarbon 15:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 02:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1 InvisibleSun 21:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Antiquary 22:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country. ~ Billy Bragg
- 2 Zarbon 15:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 02:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1 InvisibleSun 21:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 22:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Art is the objectification of feeling. ~ Susanne Langer
- 3 or in other words...bringing feelings to life through artwork. Zarbon 15:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 02:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 22:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life. ~ Susanne Langer
- 2 Zarbon 15:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 02:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 22:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
From dreams I proceed to facts. ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott
- 3 Kalki 02:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 05:31, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:55, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Antiquary 22:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
| I was rapidly descending; and I knew that return to Flatland was my doom. One glimpse, one last and never-to-be-forgotten glimpse I had of that dull level wilderness — which was now to become my Universe again — spread out before my eye. Then a darkness. Then a final, all-consummating thunder-peal; and, when I came to myself, I was once more a common creeping Square, in my Study at home, listening to the Peace-Cry of my approaching Wife.
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| ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott ~
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| Besotted Being! You think yourself the perfection of existence, while you are in reality the most imperfect and imbecile. You profess to see, whereas you can see nothing but a Point!
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| ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott ~
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| My Lord, your own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great, more beautiful, and more closely approximate to Perfection than yourself. As you yourself, superior to all Flatland forms, combine many Circles in One, so doubtless there is One above you who combines many Spheres in One Supreme Existence, surpassing even the Solids of Spaceland. And even as we, who are now in Space, look down on Flatland and see the insides of all things, so of a certainty there is yet above us some higher, purer region, whither thou dost surely purpose to lead me — O Thou Whom I shall always call, everywhere and in all Dimensions, my Priest, Philosopher, and Friend — some yet more spacious Space, some more dimensionable Dimensionality, from the vantage-ground of which we shall look down together upon the revealed insides of Solid things, and where thine own intestines, and those of thy kindred Spheres, will lie exposed to the view of the poor wandering exile from Flatland, to whom so much has already been vouchsafed.
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| ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:04, 20 December 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
| It is not for me to classify human faculties according to merit. Yet many of the best and wisest in Spaceland think more of the affections than of the understanding, more of your despised Straight Lines than of your belauded Circles.
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| ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott ~
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- 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:04, 20 December 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
| "I am indeed, in a certain sense a Circle," replied the Voice, "and a more perfect Circle than any in Flatland; but to speak more accurately, I am many Circles in one."
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| ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott ~
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| Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality; for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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| ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott ~
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| If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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| Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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| The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it—right or wrong—may be given.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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| Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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| It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age. Science builds its structure of hypothetical "elements" and laws of their behavior, touching on reality at crucial points. … But the historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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| Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune—what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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| The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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| The primal and perennial work of social organization is not to fix the bounds of behavior as permanent lines, which would make all evolutionary process impossible, but to retrieve the vital balance every time some act, public or private, has upset it.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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| In a work of art, however modest, the peculiar character of life is always reflected in the fact that it has no parts which keep their qualitative identity in isolation. In the simplest design, the virtual constituents are indivisible, and inalienable from the whole.
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| ~ Susanne Langer ~
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