"Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Allen W. Wood

#Tradition Quotes #Metaphysical Quotes #Sympathetic Quotes

“Writing does not numb, comfort, or soothe me. It does the opposite. It tends to excite me and reinscribe pain. It doesn't function as exorcism.”
“A just system must generate its own support.”
“Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.”
“It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.
“Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die”

Source : Matsuo Basho (2006). “Narrow Road to the Interior”, p.132, Shambhala Publications
“An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.”
“Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.”
“Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.1, Indiana University Press

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