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The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.
p. 161
Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?
As you talk, so is your heart.
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
Fortunately for America, Eurasia is too big to be politically one. Eurasia is thus the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played.
p. 31
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.
p. 35
Coleridge said that every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.
p. 202
The true antithesis of nature is not art but arbitrary conceit, fantasy, and stereotyped convention.
p. 158
When there is genuine artistry in scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, a thinker proceeds neither by rule nor yet blindly, but by means of meaning that exist immediately as feelings having qualitative color.
We cannot grasp any idea, any organ of meditation, we cannot possess it in full force, until we have felt and sensed it, as much so as if it were an odor or a color.
Form may then be defined as the operation of forces that carry the experience of an event, object, scene, and situation to its own integral fulfillment.





