Word: existed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...curved line gradually disappeared from Mondrian's paintings, and his verticals and horizontals inevitably created rectangles. Eager to scourge any suggestion of form from his work, Mondrian insisted that these were not rectangles, for in his definition a rectangle could exist only beside another form that contrasted with it. He argued, for example, that a rectangle placed next to a circle would take on an individual identity; when compared only with other rectangles it loses its individuality and becomes a universal. Mondrian was determined to destroy everything that shackled his painting to outer appearances or confused the face...
...cleverest wile of Satan is to convince us that he does not exist...
...also be used to provide a frame of reference to a discussion, as well as for propagandization. The "better Red than dead" question is a valid one. It relates to fundamental ideals. Yet a discussion of this issue certainly does not exclude the possibility that an alternative course does exist. In fact, most conservatives will be willing to argue that by a position of national strength we can escape both Scylla and Charybdis...
...echo undermines one's hold on life. It says, 'Pathos, piety, courage-they exist, but are identical, and so is fifth. Everything exists, but nothing has value.' If one had spoken of vileness in that place, or quoted lofty poetry, the comment would have been the same-'ouboom.' If one had spoken with the tongues of angels and pleaded for all the unhappiness of the world, past, present, and to come, for all the misery men must undergo, whatever their opinion and position and however much they dodge and bluff-it would amount to the same...
Animals can exist without questioning their existence, but man alone refuses to submit to this law of ignorance, Vercors stated...