"What is more valuable than gold? Light. "

"What is more precious than light? Conversation"

- J.W. von Goethe

Emerging Out of Goethe: [PDF] Conversation as a Form of Social Inquiry Allan Kaplan

(via wood s lot)

:: note :: . . . pdf files (present personal technology) does not allow easy cut&paste quotes . . . Kaplan moves Goethe principles into new realms exploding conversation . . . suffice to say the ideas are a feast . . . & Mark thanks for feasting the eye with Klee and Kandinsky . . .