Philosophy of Mind Quote by Nidesh Lawtoo

“Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it convincing independently of Freudian psychology are serious flaws in the novel, explain…

— John E. Stoll

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves…

— Walpola Rahula

“I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a certain doubleness…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...a novelist...we dream non-living characters and animate them with out words...”

— Marianne Wiggins

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before…

— Gaston Bachelard

“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives. They…

— Gregory Maguire

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines,…

— Jean-François Lyotard

“All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in…

— Joseph Conrad