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The universe has a finite velocity which limits not only the spread of its events, but also the speed of our perceptions. The moment of actuality slips too fast by the slow, coarse net of our senses.

— George Kubler

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Purpose has no place in biology, but history has no meaning without it.

We always may be sure that every man-made thing arises from a problem as a purposeful solution.

The notion of style has long been the art historian's principal mode of classifying works of art. By style he selects and shapes the history of art.

The seventeenth-century academic separation between fine and useful arts first fell out of fashion nearly a century ago.

George Kubler (1961)

Although inanimate things remain our most tangible evidence that the old human past really existed, the conventional metaphors used to describe this visible past are mainly biological.

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Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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