The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.
I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.
Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.
Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.
The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.
