#it

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#assign #dare #function #imitating #nature

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#change #desire #every #his #hospital

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#always #becomes #definition #equivalent #give

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#become #biggest #biggest obstacle #christianity #had

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#amoral #arts #degrading #end #endowment

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#aversion #big #bureaucracy #bureaucrats #care

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#art

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ↗

— Milton Berle

#committee #group #hours #keeps #loses

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#average #average person #decide #definitely #go

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#activity #circumstances #general #his #ideas