"...for I say at the core of democracy, finally, is the religious element. All the religions, old and new, are there."--Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Artist:
Anton Refregier, born Moscow, Russia 1905-died Moscow, Russia 1979 Search this
"A free man is he that in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to."--Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
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Jan Stussy, born Benton County, MO 1921-West Los Angeles, CA 1990 Search this
"Act as if the whole election depended on your single vote, and as if the whole Parliament (and therein the whole nation) on that single person whom you now choose to be a member of it." John Wesley from A word to a Freeholder, 1748. From the series Great Ideas.
Artist:
Gerald McLaughlin, born Sacramento, CA 1925 Search this
"All religions must be tolerated, and the sole concern of authorities should be to see that one does not molest another, for here every man must be saved in his own way."--Frederick the Great, Cabinet Order, June 22, 1740. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Artist:
Luise Kaish, born Atlanta, GA 1925-died New York City 2013 Search this
Medium:
bronze
Dimensions:
39 7/8 x 39 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. (101.4 x 101.4 x 18.9 cm)
"Education is revelation that affects the individual."--Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of the Human Race, 1780. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Artist:
Johannes Itten, Swiss, born Süderen-Linden, Switzerland 1888-died Zürich, Switzerland 1967 Search this
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."--Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, II, 1840, lecture in London, May 8. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Artist:
Herbert Bayer, born Haag, Austria 1900-died Montecito, CA 1985 Search this
Medium:
metal
Dimensions:
overall (includes base): 14 7/8 x 13 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (37.9 x 34.3 x 31.9 cm) overall: 12 1/2 x 12 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (31.9 x 32.4 x 34.3 cm)
"He who lives in harmony with his own self lives in harmony with the universe; for both the universal order and personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations X:6. From the series Great Ideas.
Artist:
Alain Jacquet, French, born Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1939-died New York City 2008 Search this
"Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man. For war consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lie...
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Leon Karp, born New York City 1903-died New York City 1951 Search this
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."--Carl Schurz, Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, April 18, 1859. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Artist:
Joseph Cornell, born Nyack, NY 1903-died New York City 1972 Search this
Medium:
mixed media: painted and stained wood, glass, shells, driftwood, and paper, assembled, glued, and nailed
Dimensions:
17 3/8 x 12 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. (44.2 x 32.7 x 8.9 cm.)
"In democracies, of the more extreme type there has arisen a false idea of freedom which is contradictory to the true interests of the state. For two principles are characteristic of democracy, the government of the majority and freedom. Men think that what is just is equal; and that equality is the supremacy of the popular will; and that freedom means the doing what a man likes. In such democracies everyone lives as he pleases...But this is all wrong; men should not think it slavery to live ...
Artist:
Edgar Miller, born Idaho Falls, ID 1899-died 1993 Search this
