The Act Of Philosophizing Involves The Character

That Is Why I Think, In Defiance Of Plato, That There Is At Once Error And Vulgarity In Saying That Poetry Is A Lie, Except In The Sense That Cocteau Wrote One Day: I Am A Lie Who Always Tells The Truth. The Only Poetry Which Lies Purely And Simply Is Academic, Pseudo-classical, Conceptually Repetitive Poetry, And It Is Not Poetry.

The Aim Of Education Is To Guide Young Persons In The Process Through Which They Shape Themselves As Human Persons-armed With Knowledge, Strength Of Judgment, And Moral Virtues-while At The Same Time Conveying To Them The Spiritual Heritage Of The Nation And The Civilization In Which They Are Involved.

The Division Between The Useful Arts And The Fine Arts Must Not Be Understood In Too Absolute A Manner. In The Humblest Work Of The Craftsmen, If Art Is There, There Is A Concern For Beauty, Through A Kind Of Indirect Repercussion That The Requirements Of The Creativity Of The Spirit Exercise Upon The Production Of An Object To Serve Human Needs.

Poetic Experience Is Distinct In Nature From Mystical Experience. Because Poetry Emanates From The Free Creativity Of The Spirit,it Is From The Very Start Oriented Toward Expression, And Terminates In A Word Proffered, It Wants To Speak; Whereas Mystical Because It Emanates From The Deepest Longing Of The Spirit Bent On Knowing, Tends Of Itself Toward Silence And Internal Fruition. Poetic Experience Is Busy With The Created World And The Enigmatic And Innumerable Relations Of Existents With One Another, Not With The Principle Of Being.

If It Is Correct To Say That There Will Always Be Rightist Temperaments And Leftist Temperaments, It Is Nevertheless Also Correct To Say That Political Philosophy Is Neither Rightist Nor Leftist; It Must Simply Be True .