Giovanni Paolo Panini’s Capriccio with Roman Ruins and Figures, 1735, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Leo Strauss Liberalism Ancient and Modern
Grevel, Jan-Heiner. "A Sense of Place in Emptiness: Ad Reinhardt’s ‘small black cross painting.’"
Merton, Thomas Faith and Violence (1968)
"Violence rests on the assumption that the enemy and I are entirely different: the enemy is evil and I am good. The enemy must be destroyed but I must be saved. But love sees things differently. It sees that even the enemy suffers from the same sorrows and limitations that I do."
Sesshū Tōyō’s Haboku Sansui (Splashed-Ink Landscape) (1495)
Merton, Thomas Zen and the Birds of Appetite (1968)
"Words are like fingers pointing at the moon. If you stare at the finger, you miss all the heavenly glory."
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Habermas, Jurgen Knowledge and Human Interests
"The world fashioned by the mass media is a public sphere in appearance only... The public sphere becomes the court before which public relations faces are displayed—a court before which a public opinion is manufactured rather than formed."
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1563, Oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Leo Strauss Socrates and Aristophanes
Wu Zhen’s Stalk of Bamboo (c. 1350)
Merton, Thomas The Way of Chuang Tzu (1965)
"The greatest politeness is free of all formality. Perfect conduct is free of concern. Perfect wisdom is unplanned. Perfect love is without demonstrations."
Francisco Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (c. 1799)
Ricoeur, De l’interpretation. Essai sur Freud Freud and Philosophy: And Essay on Interpretation
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Allegory of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and the Country, 1338–1339, Fresco, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
Leo Strauss City and Man
Pablo Picasso’s Guernica
Merton, Thomas Seeds of Destruction (1964)
"We are responsible for the world we live in, not just because we are its inhabitants, but because we are its creators. Every act of injustice, every word of hatred, every silence in the face of wrong, adds a seed to the destruction that we all fear."
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Arendt On Revolution
The question is only whether that which made for stability and answered so well the early modern preoccupation with permanence was enough to preserve the spirit which had become manifest during the Revolution itself. p.231
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