A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
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"The Greeks and Us", p. 15Wystan Hugh Auden
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In arguing for increasing content owners' control over content users, it's not sufficient to say "They didn't pay for this use."
Lawrence Lessig
True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.
Asger Jorn
Operational analysis ... cannot raise the decisive question whether the consent itself was not the work of manipulation—a question for which the actual state of affairs provides ample justification. The analysis cannot raise it because it would transcend its terms toward transitive meaning—toward a concept of democracy which would reveal the democratic election as a rather limited democratic process. Precisely such a non-operational concept is the one rejected by the authors as “unrealistic” because it defines democracy on too articulate a level as the clear-cut control of representation by the electorate—popular control as popular sovereignty.
Herbert Marcuse
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.Hans Hofmann
Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.
Bob Rae
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