There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found…

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

— Ernest Becker

Instead of asking a girl how she feels, try looking through her recently listened to songs. The lyrics are the answer to all your…

— Anonymous

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes…

— Stefano Gabbana

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

— Daniel J. Siegel

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the…

— Marsden Hartley

The mountain receives our expressions and becomes part of us; we imprint our memories upon it and trust it with out dearest divisions of…

— Bruce Barcott

In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’

— Michael Hawley

A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.

— Nathaniel Branden