Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is… — Kenneth W. Ford Copy Share Image
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in… — Antonio Perez Copy Share Image
Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To be sure, the hard-to-come-by interview - the 'get' - isn't an uncommon phenomenon here at 'The Daily Show.' We've had high-profile… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but… — John Astin Copy Share Image
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like,… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
We're seeing the sort of liberal phenomenon of activists that are speaking out. And they have every right to do so. I… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time. — Hollis Frampton Copy Share Image
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image