I Am The Place In Which Something

The Work Of The Painter, The Poet Or The Musician, Like The Myths And Symbols Of The Savage, Ought To Be Seen By Us, If Not As A Superior Form Of Knowledge, At Least As The Most Fundamental And The Only One Really Common To Us All; Scientific Thought Is Merely The Sharp Point More Penetrating Because It Has Been Whetted On The Stone Of Fact, But At The Cost Of Some Loss Of Substance And Its Effectiveness Is To Be Explained By Its Power To Pierce Sufficiently Deeply For The Main Body Of The Tool To Follow The Head.

Music Is A Language By Whose Means Messages Are Elaborated, That Such Messages Can Be Understood By The Many But Sent Out Only By Few, And That It Alone Among All The Languages Unites The Contradictory Character Of Being At Once Intelligible And Untranslatable - These Facts Make The Creator Of Music A Being Like The Gods.

The Police Are Not Entrusted With A Mission Which Differentiates Them From Those They Serve. Being Unconcerned With Ultimate Purposes, They Are Inseparable From The Persons And Interests Of Their Masters, And Shine With Their Reflected Glory.

The Anthropologist Respects History, But He Does Not Accord It A Special Value. He Conceives It As A Study Complementary To His Own: One Of Them Unfurls The Range Of Human Societies In Time, The Other In Space.

Enthusiastic Partisans Of The Idea Of Progress Are In Danger Of Failing To Recognize The Immense Riches Accumulated By The Human Race. By Underrating The Achievements Of The Past, They Devalue All Those Which Still Remain To Be Accomplished.