But in action, one defies one's character.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.
Wise men still seek Him today.
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.