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"Ahhh...Venezia", (sculpture)
"Doors" for Immanuel Lutheran Church, (sculpture)
"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, (sculpture)
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- Great Ideas of Western Man Series: Every New Opinion, at Its Starting, Is Precisely in a Minority of One, (sculpture)
"Gray Day" Rough Water, (painting)
"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 democraci...
"M" Sculpture, (sculpture)
"Monument" for V. Tatlin, (sculpture)
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." --Seneca, Epistles, 2, 2 A.S. 63-64. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man, (sculpture)
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- Great Ideas of Western Man Series: Most Powerful Is He Who Has Himself in His Own Power, (sculpture)
"No barriers, no masses of matter however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind; the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb; the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb; the very Heaven itself is laid open." --Marcus Manilius, Astronomica. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man, (painting)
"Nothing that is wrong in principle can be right in practice."--Carl Schurz, 1829-1906. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man, (painting)
"Notte Tree" Rebirth of Ecological Feeling, (sculpture)
"Thal all men have one common nature, is a principle which will now universally prevail, and equal rights and equal duties will in a just sense, I hope, be inferred from it. But equal ranks and equal property never can be inferred from it," (sculpture)
"The Greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism, is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and..., (sculpture)
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- Great Ideas of Western Man Series: The Greatest Obstacle to Being Heroic Is the Doubt Whether One May Not Be Going to Prove One's..., (sculpture)
"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man, (painting)
"There are five revolutions that must take place either simultaneously or not at all: a political revolution; a social revolution; a technological and scientific revolution; a revolution in culture, values and standards; and a revolution in international," (sculpture)
"To me it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography" - George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man, (painting)
"True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization is the measure of the progress of the world."--Felix E. Schelling, "Pedagogically Speaking," 1929. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man, (painting)
"U" as a Set, (sculpture)
"Until Philosophers are kings, or the kings and pinces of the world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are ....., (painting)
"When you do a thing because you have determined that it ought to be done, never avoid being seen doing it, even if the opinion of the multitude is going to condemn you. For if your action is wrong, then avoid doing it altogether, but if it is right, why do you fear those who will rebuke you wrongly?"--Epictetus on doing right. From the series Great Ideas, (painting)
