attraction, that’s the farthest thing from an idea. That’s an urge, an impulse, a force. It’s subconscious, physical. You can’t make everything cerebral.

I’m simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That’s what art is for; it’s not cerebral, it’s emotional.

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The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man’s head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field...

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics...