Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. - Susanne Langer

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

The men in the laboratory [...] cannot be said to observe the actual objects of their curiosity at all.[...] The sense data on which the propositions of modern science rest are, for the most part, little photographic spots and blurs, or inky curved lines on paper.[...] What is directly observable is only a sign of the "physical fact"; it requires interpretation to yield scientific propositions.

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience, rather than adding to experience itself, as factual learning and experimental investigation do.