3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“Hence I most seriously believe that one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them. This applies most of all to the great artist, but also in a lesser degree to the scientist.“
—Albert Einstein, from The Albert Einstein Collection
“Thus poetry and philosophy are more closely related to one another than any of the sciences to philosophy; both, equally, are aimed, as one might say, at wonder (and wonder does not occur in the workaday world)—and this by virtue of the power of transcending the everyday world, a power common to poetry and philosophy.”
—Leisure: The Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper (1948)
“Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.”
—Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, by Susanne K. Langer (1942)