PURPOSE is spirit seeking expression.

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