A Quote by Mary McMullen

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

Mary McMullen

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Form Highest Highest Form Love Love Is Perhaps Recognition

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Mary McMullen
American - Author
1920 - 1986

None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in a complex seems to be so similar in art and in science that it is difficult not to suppose that they are psychologically the same. It is, as it were, the final stage of both processes.

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