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Levels Quotes - Page 39

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, Courier Corporation

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.

Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

"Pop's undersung heroes: artists with big influence but small reputation" by Angus Batey, Bob Stanley, Dave Simpson, Paul Lester, Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2010.

No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.

Francis Quarles, Charles Edward De Coetlogon, Christopher Harvey (1778). “Emblems Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.88

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Eric Bentley (1986). “The Pirandello Commentaries”, p.9, Northwestern University Press