"The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible."

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August Macke

#Bridges Quotes

“Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.”

Source : "One to watch: Jessie Ware" by Morwenna Ferrier, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.”
“To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.”
“What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ***** for no reasonâ€”instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, itâ€™s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.”
“I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!”
“They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.”
“To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.”

Source : Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.19, Paulist Press
“It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.”

Source : Sebastian Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1968). “The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals”

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