“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.””
Quotes by L. P. Jacks
“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always in forms which compel us to look beyond them to the total object which is telling its own story and standing in its own rights. In this the poet and the philosopher are one. Using language as the lever, they lift thought above the levels where words perplex and retard its flight, and leave it, at last, standing face to face with the object which reveals itself.””
“In all great poetry there is a kind of 'kenosis' of the understanding, a self-emptying of the tongue. Here language points away from itself to something greater than itself.””
“There is nothing, . . . which sooner demoralises a man's intelligence than the discovery that he can make money by following the demand of a degenerate public taste.””
L. P. JacksL. P. Jacks was a Scottish writer, educator, and philosopher, best known for his contributions to the field of religious thought and his role in the development of modernist literature. Born in 1860, ...