"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination."

-- Eduard Hanslick

#Beautiful Quotes #Art Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

Source : Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
“Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.”
“I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.”
“Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.”
“You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business -- that takes a lot of audacity.”
“It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.”
“Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.153, Macmillan

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