Coherence Quote by Nicolas Gomez Davila

“What I realized standing there, is that this dark yearning is what happens when we idealize anything: the form of a woman, a landscape,…

— Peter Heller

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

— Jane Addams

“Music is a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse.”

— Richard Powers

Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

— George Crumb

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is…

— Hermann Hesse

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human…

— Kenneth Tynan

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we…

— Gregory Orr

In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide…

— Gaston Bachelard

“To live, it seems, is to explain, to justify, and to find coherence among diverse outcomes, characteristics, and causes.”

— Thomas Gilovich

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system;…

— John Trudell

By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between…

— Rosalind E. Krauss