Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
A true house is something you can return to when the adventure of thought and action has made you leave it and almost forget about it.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
Dans les commentaires délirants auxquels l'article de l'avocat donna lieu, devait revenir sous les formes les plus insolites la comparaison avec le sourire de la Joconde. Maître Homaire avait, entre autres, écrit : « Dans le voile bleuté du petit matin, confondu avec les voiles des noces, il émanait de la mort d'Hadriana Siloé une espèce d'envoûtem
... See moreRené Depestre • Hadriana dans tous mes rêves (French Edition)
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Frank Herbert • Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)
I said, this man is of an ardent and melancholy character. Those ideas which, in others, are casual or obscure, which are entertained in moments of abstraction and solitude, and easily escape when the scene is changed, have obtained an immoveable hold upon his mind.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Whilst thus the poet animates nature with his own thoughts, he differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth. But the philosopher, not less than the poet, postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the empire of thought. "The problem of philosophy," according to Plato,
... See moreRalph Waldo Emerson • Nature
Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that the contemplators are contemplated.
Victor Hugo • Les Miserables (Les Misérables)
force. Il avait tenté en pleine conscience de l’accroître, en se gardant de tout excès. Il n’avait pas renié non plus son goût du monde réel. Son œuvre était réaliste, mais l’imagination y avait sa part, avec ses beautés et ses inventions. Il recherchait un réalisme ardent, traversé par les aspirations et les rêves de l’homme. Il voulait montrer la
... See morePhilippe Jaworski • Martin Eden (édition enrichie) (French Edition)
Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.