Concepts and practices of democracy (or democratization, because it is a conduct and not necessarily a state), development, and culture overlap thus to define one another. The aesthetics of interacting with the environment, of experiences morphing through art into objects and processes of beauty, constitute the ground for ethical consciousness. Beauty--however we conceive of it (but we always recognize it)--is a way toward accessing ethical values. Conscience flows from consciousness; the other way round would constitute moral dogma.

I bet the monster was happy when they made him a maze.

Increasing our range need not cost us our focus: quite the reverse. The person without a range of reference is not more authentically human for being so. He is just more alone.

Our cameras, our wordy spokesmen or propagandists, don't seek and celebrate an old man's pride, an old woman's faith, a housewife's ingenuity and intelligence, her husband's almost desperate carpentry . . .

Mythological and philosophical constructions are obviously capers to relieve our anxiety in face of the intolerable. It is a sign of slight progress if we are able to stay fairly quiet.

That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with the years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. This, that, and the other;

But a past act is dead, i.e. meaningless to the historian, unless he can understand the thought that lay behind it. Hence "all history is the history of thought," and "history is the re-enactment in the historian's mind of the thought whose history he is studying."