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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the…
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The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
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Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
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A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
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We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
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There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and…
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In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
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It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit…
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I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
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Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
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When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea…
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I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.
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I always tell people, live happily and die majestically.
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Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
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Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize…
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Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it…
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The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus,…
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The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination…
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When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea…
— Guy Davenport
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Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he…
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If you stand for a principle, even if alone, stand majestically like an oak tree. If you happen to fall, fall like…
— T Joseph Benziger
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