Aphorisms

• He changes the world most who lives in it best.
• Intelligence is moral courage.
• The fact is a detail of the miracle.
• A great passion leads itself home by the hand.
• The universe is the scale of scales.
• The milk of peace is sweet but its dregs are bitter war.
• A man who is part of the whole is a whole man.
• Belief separates the believer from the object of belief.
• God is the ceaseless shock of the real.
• A man is a heart and a heart is a fist banging on heaven.
• A man is he who leaves his mother and adopts is his own body of experience to be his new mother.
• [My brother, on God] “Toasters were invented: they exist.”
• The real world is real because anything can happen.
• Courage mediates between faith and will.
• Death is God's way of saying: "You don't really want to know."
• Our souls are formed by our acts.
• Losers envy, winners admire.
• A longing heart makes for a long memory.
• Reason has more need of faith than faith of reason.
• Compassion needs no conscience; conscience needs no law.
• Good memory is a function of honesty.
• Without limits all hope is vain.
• An innuendo is an accusation made by a coward.
• The world will never suit those who strive to make it better.
• A ton of doubt and a feather of faith is a ton of faith.
• There is only one here and its time is always now.
• Our souls are the sums of our aspirations.
• You can’t humiliate a humble man.
• To imagine a world without adversity is to suffer.
• Loving everyone is loving no one.
• Resistance proves leadership.
• A tyrant sows in the soil of kindness and reaps in the name of justice.

ART AND CULTURE

• Art is revelation, not furniture.
• A masterpiece is a marriage of truth and fact.
• The avant-garde is a bridge-head—not a bridge-burning.
• Art is a commitment to a self-transcending content.
• In "political art galleries" there is neither art nor politics.
• To be moved by a work of art is to understand it.
• The sentence, "everything is political," is also political.
• No functioning system is arbitrary.
• There is no abstraction without representation, and vice-versa.
• Art is the entertainment of virtue.
• Tragedy is a death that threatens the death of meaning.
• I've been told a lot about journalism.
• I don't like "People's Poetry": I am committed to a poetry of the mouses.
• Discovery is recognition.
• Boredom is the herald of insight and accomplishment.

© 200, 2007 Dan Goorevitch