Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. – Jacob Bronowski
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal. – William Ames
