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A Successful Work Of Art Is Not One Which Resolves Contradictions In A Spurious Harmony
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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a
spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by
embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost
structure.
-- Theodore Adorno
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All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good...
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.
You will find that one of them is wrong. -- Ayn Rand...
Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me. -- Vincent van Gogh
They do not understand how that which differs with itself is in agreeme
harmony consists of opposing tension, like that of the lyre and the bow. -- Heraclitu...
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things....
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas.
That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. -- Etty Hilsum...
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.
'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are _not_ part of "Nature"-- but beavers and their dams _are_....
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Theodore and Honoria, Line 227...
Any fully matured science of ecology will have to grapple with the fact that from the ecological point of view
man is one of those animals which is in danger from its too successful participation in the struggle for existence....