Michael Schaffner
@mas
@mas
For the meaning of woods is the combination of energy with complexity. A forest is not in the least rude or barbarous; it is only dense with delicacy.
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation…
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
Quotes on Models and Their Uses and Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult
It is obvious, of course, that a permanent ideal is absolutely necessary to anything like progress or reform. You cannot reform what is eternally formless; and you cannot march towards what is always moving about.
he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.
What is vitally needed everywhere, in art as much as in ethics, in poetry as much as in politics, is choice; a creative power in the will as well as in the mind. Without that self–limitation of somebody, nothing living will ever see the light.
“Bosh,” he said. “On what else is the whole world run but immediate impressions? What is more practical? My friend, the philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
‘this is indeed a meeting which is calculated to impress the mind with a sense of the instability and uncertainty of all human—in short, it is a most extraordinary meeting.