The free man is not he who defies the rules … but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day’s experience.

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.
BERNARD IDDINGS BELL

Artist Destined Goal Lover Man
The free man is not he who defies the rules … but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day’s experience.
BERNARD IDDINGS BELL

Day Each Experience Freedom Men
I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
BERNARD IDDINGS BELL

Creative Enslavement Little Love Outgoing
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
BERNARD IDDINGS BELL

Education Enable Men Preparation
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give.
BERNARD IDDINGS BELL

Active Love Something
The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.
BERNARD IDDINGS BELL

Character Money School Years

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