Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Every act is a visual judgement.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

She was a truth that had filled his every moment.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment....

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

You are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.

Everything looks beautiful in Life of Pi.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.