Quote by Carl Jung

“that the stories we tell about things, and thus the beliefs we have about their history and their nature, shape our experience of them, and…

— Robert Wright

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he shows them…

— Flannery O'Connor

“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to…

— James Joyce

“Human nature in time is engraved in history.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of…

— John Arbuthnot

“And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.”

— Viktor Shklovsky

“In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those…

— Albert Einstein

“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of…

— Kenyon Cox

Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see…

— Rollo May

“I came to admire at all angles a sculpture that speaks of the sacred, not of the mundane. Of that moment when two beings…

— Cisneros Sandra