quotes
Terence McKenna on the imagination:
... See moreThe imagination is central to the alchemical opus; the process goes on in the realm of imagination, taken on to be a physical dimension; we cannot understand the history ahead of us until we imagine a journey into the imagination. We have exhausted the Cartesian paradigm; the future of the human enterprise is in
“Slums may be the breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators for apathy and delirium.” — Cyril Connolly
Ted Hughes:
“And that’s how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a might river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.”
Martin Heidegger:
"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself." ― Martin Heidegger
This Sontag quote maps onto my essay framework of voice (sight, sound, spirit):
“What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.”
See more: imagery, concision, motif;
Hear more: rhythm, reputation, rhyme;
Feel more: tone, perspective, subtext.
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
- Charles Baudelaire
Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Living (p.57)
“Nature has, in her eyes, no law, no uniformity.”
“A large army is always disorderly” — Euripedes
From Hermes Trismegistus:
... See more"If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like. Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too