Irving HoweThinkers

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind... it is a way of engaging reality.

Modern literature now provides the message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide.

The Reader is a good reader who can make much out of little.

The Self has never been seen. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: The individual, the mind, the society.

Taste speaks through subtleties: A turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: It makes an atmosphere.