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Aesthetician Inspirational Quotes (705)

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Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.
John Dewey
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To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
John Ruskin
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One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.
John Ruskin
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I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
Jacques Lacan
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The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
John Dewey
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey
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Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.
John Dewey
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In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan
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By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
John Dewey
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Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means it is the whole of which they are ingredients.
John Dewey
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
John Ruskin
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In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.
Giorgio Vasari
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
John Dewey
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Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.
John Ruskin
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Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.
John Dewey
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Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!
Giorgio Vasari
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No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
John Ruskin
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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin
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The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.
John Dewey
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But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
Jacques Lacan
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Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
John Dewey
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