Aphorisms

by Peter Taylor

**1** A poet is an observer who comments. **6** Science is a direction towards the specific; art is a direction towards the individual. Science explains; art exemplifies. 13 Any observation occurs on three levels: object, perception of object, perception. These roughly correspond to what it is, what you think it is, what you think. **8** Time is an eternal present forming and re-forming experience in the paradox of change. **27** Civilization in any age is a movement from the automatic to the voluntary. Progress, on the other hand, is a refinement in technology. **40** I imagine three planes of existence: awareness, knowledge, music. **48** The universe is an idea we inhabit.