Philosophy

[SB Wang]

Quote: It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Author: Sir Max Beerbohm 1872-1956, British Actor


Quote: Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Author: Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658, Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England


Quote: There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist


Quote: Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist


Quote: The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
Author: Benjamin Haydon 1786-1846, British Artist


Quote: I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author


Quote: Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
Author: Paul Klee 1879-1940, Swiss Artist


Quote: When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist


Quote: Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Author: Anthony Powell 1905-, British Novelist


Quote: He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926, German Poet

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[SB Wang]

Originally Posted by SB Wang

Allan: more quotes
http://koti.mbnet.fi/neptunia/philos1.htm
http://www.quoteworld.org/browse.php...onflict&page=3

http://www.1-famous-quotes.com/PHILOSOPHY_quotes.htm

[SB Wang]

Hi, Pat and Allan:
Thanks. I posted that quotation after I paid price for my lapse. Now I try to remember it by 3 r's:
Urgent
Creative
Strive hard
As well as SQ3R: study, question, review, recite? what is the last R?

Study this:
http://www.friesian.com/hegel.htm#dialectic
http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/doctmean.htm

[SB Wang]

"On Practice"
http://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...1/mswv1_16.htm
Please find out which paragraph Mr.Clinton quoted.

[SB Wang]

http://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...9/mswv9_01.htm

[SB Wang]

Dear Mr. Wang:
In the search of literature in the Internet I advertently found an article on "The Difficulty of Yijing." (CLEAR, vol.15)
You might be interested in reading it because you are an expert in Yijing. You can judge whether what it said is correct or not. Thanks.
Professor James Yang

Dear Dr. Yang: (Montclair State Univ.)
Thanks!
I'm still at an early stage. I'm glad I can use some of it. To be more successful or not, in a sense, is a question of if we can master philosophy, and Yijing.
Schubert Wang