Paul A. Freund quotes

Paul A. Freund quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.”
-- Paul A. Freund

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“The Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day but inevitably they will be influenced by the climate of the era.”
-- Paul A. Freund

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“There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.”
“If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.”
“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”
“A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.”
“The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.”
“It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.”

Source : "'Girls' Star Allison Williams Braces for an Unfamiliar Kind of Fame" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2012.
“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”
“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”
“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

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