Philosophy Quote by M.G.Crisci — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.”

“The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond.”

“...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”

“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.”

“[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.”

“The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.”