— George Kelly (psychologist) American psychologist and therapist 1905 - 1967
Origine: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, p. 130
George A. Kelly, "Humanistic methodology in psychological research," In: B Maher (ed), Clinical Psychology and Personality: the Selected Papers of George Kelly, Wiley. 1969. p. 140.
— George Kelly (psychologist) American psychologist and therapist 1905 - 1967
Origine: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, p. 130
— Benjamin Boretz American composer 1934
from Meta-Variations: studies in the foundations of musical thought Red Hook, N.Y. : Open Space, 1995.
— Mark Tobey American abstract expressionist painter 1890 - 1976
The Tigers Eye 1, Mark Tobey, 1952; as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 103
1950's
— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon British Liberal statesman 1862 - 1933
Recreation (1919)
Contesto: There is much poetry for which most of us do not care, but with a little trouble when we are young we may find one or two poets whose poetry, if we get to know it well, will mean very much to us and become part of ourselves... The love for such poetry which comes to us when we are young will not disappear as we get older; it will remain in us, becoming an intimate part of our own being, and will be an assured source of strength, consolation, and delight.
— Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair 1970
"Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective Within The Science And Practice Of Psychology" (2002)
— Ellen Willis writer, activist 1941 - 2006
"Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life" (1979), Beginning To See the Light: Pieces of a Decade (1981)
Contesto: There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emotional, moral, mysterious, spontaneous, abandoned, focused on a particular person, and stereotypically feminine. Baroque sex is pop, playful, funny, experimental, conscious, deliberate, amoral, anonymous, focused on sensation for sensation's sake, and stereotypically masculine. The classical mentality taken to an extreme is sentimental and finally puritanical; the baroque mentality taken to an extreme is pornographic and finally obscene. Ideally, a sexual relation ought to create a satisfying tension between the two modes (a baroque idea, particularly if the tension is ironic) or else blend them so well that the distinction disappears (a classical aspiration).
— Brian Campbell Vickery British information theorist 1918 - 2009
Origine: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 7.
— Logan Pearsall Smith British American-born writer 1865 - 1946
“Montaigne,” p. 2
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)
— Olaf Stapledon British novelist and philosopher 1886 - 1950
Philosophy and Living (1939)
Contesto: Throughout man's career intelligence and charity have been man's distinctive and most valuable assets. One of our early pre-human ancestors is said to have been much like the Spectral Tarsier, a little mammal about the size of a mouse, with long wiry fingers and huge forward-looking eyes adapted for binocular vision. Not by weapons but by correlation of subtle eyes and subtle hands through subtle brain, this creature triumphed. And man himself conquered the world by the same means, by attention, by discrimination, by skilled manipulation, by versatility; in fact by intelligence and imagination in adapting himself to an ever-changing environment.
— Steve Stewart-Williams 1971
Origine: The Ape that Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2013), p. 251
— Robert Maxwell Young American medical historian 1935 - 2019
Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century, 1970. p. 101
— Thaddus E. Weckowicz Canadian psychologist 1919 - 2000
Origine: Models of Mental Illness (1984), p. 319 ( chapter online http://positivedisintegration.com/Weckowicz1984.pdf)
„Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.“
— Margaret Mead American anthropologist 1901 - 1978
Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
Origine: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 121
— Maurice Denis French painter 1870 - 1943
Quote from Denis's essay 'Les Arts a Rome', 1898; as cited on Wikipedia: Maurice Denis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Denis - reference [22]
Denis made Jan. 1895 his first visit to Rome, where the works of Raphael and Michaelangelo in the Vatican made a strong impression upon him.
1890 - 1920
„The book of the Bible which most obviously resembles the Taoist classics is Ecclesiastes.“
— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968
But at the same time there is much in the teaching of the Gospels on simplicity, childlikeness, and humility, which responds to the deepest aspirations of the Chuang Tzu book and the Tao Teh Ching.
"A Note To The Reader".
The Way of Chuang-Tzŭ (1965)
— James Anthony Froude English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine 1818 - 1894
"On the Uses of a Landed Gentry" address in Edinburgh (6 November 1876), published in Short Studies on Great Subjects, Vol. III (1893), p. 406
Contesto: The landlord may become a direct oppressor. He may care nothing for the people, and have no object but to squeeze the most that he can out of them fairly or unfairly. The Russian government has been called despotism tempered with assassination. In Ireland landlordism was tempered by assassination.
Unfortunately the wrong man was generally assassinated. The true criminal was an absentee, and his agent was shot instead of him. A noble lord living in England, two of whose agents had lost their lives already in his service, ordered the next to post a notice in his Barony that he intended to persevere in what he was doing, and if the tenants thought they would intimidate him by shooting his agents, they would find themselves mistaken.