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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?

— Eli Siegel Self and World (1957)

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Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual.

Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.

Self and World (1957)

Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.

Self and World (1957)

There is a disposition in every person to think he will be for himself by making less of the outside world.

Self and World (1957)

Aesthetics is related to every particular conflict; to everyday conflict.

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

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