Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

Theres nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.