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“History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged with bodily rhythm, tinged with dream, but concerned with a wealth of formulations for its wealth of wordless knowledge, its whole knowledge of emotional and organic experience, of vital impulse, balance, conflict, the ways of living and dying and feeling.”
― Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
― Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
“Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.”
― Philosophical Investigations
― Philosophical Investigations
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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