Category: Commonplace_1
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Josef Pieper: Leisure cannot be found when sought as a means to any end.
— from “Leisure the Basis Of Culture”
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Josef Peiper: “In worship, a store of superfluous wealth is squandered.” 
— from “Leisure the Basis Of Culture”
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Josef Pieper: “…there is no such thing as a festival without Gods…” 
— “Leisure the Basis Of Culture”
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John Ruskin on design, using organic forms
It is difficult to give you an idea of the grace and interest which the simplest objects possess when their forms are thus abstracted from among the surrounding of rich circumstance which in nature disturbs the feebleness of our attention. — “The Work of Iron”, as collected in “On Art and Life”
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Oscar Wilde: “…my diary…something sensational to read on the train.”
Wilde once wrote: “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
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Walt Whitman: “I think I will do nothing for a long time…”
“…but listen,and accrue what I hear unto myself…and let sounds contribute toward me…” — quoted by Mary Ruefle in “Madness, Rack and Honey”
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Mary Ruefle: “I used to think I wrote…”
“…because I had something to say…but now I know I continue to write because I have yet heard what I have been listening to.”
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Kant: Either a price or a dignity
In the kingdom of ends, everything has a price or a dignity. If it has a price then something else can be substituted for it. If it has no price then it has a dignity. — Quoted by Roger Scruton in “Fools, Frauds and Firebrands”