"Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Spiritual Quotes #Blow Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.”
“True felicity consists of its own consciousness.”
“Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind.”
“I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.”

Source : Ben Casnocha (2015). “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons
“Your side of the boat is sinking!”
“Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.”
“We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.”
“A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way, regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later to have an application. Then one has good luck. At age 78.”

You may also like:

August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Poet
Friedrich Schiller
Poet
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
Johann Gottfried Herder
Philosopher
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Philosopher
Johann Ludwig Tieck
Poet
Novalis
Poet