#primacy

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#been #believe #communion #despite #first

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#best #common #imagination #over #primacy

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#emphasize #i #idea #interested #irony

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#ethical #hence #judgment #means #norms