Eli Siegel Quotes

1902–1978 Latvia

Eli Siegel (August 16, 1902 – November 8, 1978) was the poet, critic, and educator who founded Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy that sees reality as the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

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All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this.

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

There is a deep and "dialectic" duality facing every human being, which can be put this way: How is he to be entirely himself, and yet be fair to that world which he does not see as himself?

Self and World (1957)

Shadows...bring softness to every thing. An object and its shadow are softness and hardness.

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

So we are alone in our blood and bones and our thoughts. It seems we are separate if we want to feel that way. And yet we can look out.

Self and World (1957)

A person is separate from all other things and together with all other things. To understand opposites in a self, the meaning of together and separate must be seen (this meaning is like that of same and different).

Self and World (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eli Siegel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.