Quote by Archibald MacLeish
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. – Archibald MacLeish

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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. – Archibald MacLeish

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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with ones own opinion. – Ambrose Bierce

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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. – Thomas Hobbes

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