[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature,… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
For years, my actual listening activity has been governed by what I perceived to be good for me as a musician, almost… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
“some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in… — Irving Singer Copy Share Image
A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, there are three gems: Buddha, the awakened one; Dharma, the way of understanding and loving; and Sangha, the community that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and… — Carl B. Pratt Copy Share Image
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves… — Laozi Copy Share Image
My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine if our basic human nature is trusted. If… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline… — Plato Copy Share Image
Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The woods, the vines, the very stones, were at one with the brightness of the sun and the unblemished sky, and even… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted'… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image