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“Are we victims of destiny, or is it all mere determination? Suppose we do not just want to blame ourselves for not being lucky. In that case, we must endeavor to be imaginative and empower our dreams to take shape. ("Camera obscura of the mind")”

Mind Destiny Dreams Determination Blame Endeavor Imaginative Empower Camera Obscura Being Lucky

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“When we are grappling with misery and our heart is in a knot, we may well do better to snap back to a new reality, make choices, refine and consolidate our self-image; and remodel the mould of our identity. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )”

Heart Choices Identity Misery Self Image Grappling New Reality Camera Obscura Knot Snap Back

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“By retracing the emotional fragments lost in the turns and splits of the past, we may learn to reconstruct a shattered self, find a sensible present, and prepare to inhabit a share of the future. ("Camera obscura of the mind" )”

Self Past Future Camera Obscura Inhabit Retrace Emotional Fragments Reconstract Turns And Splits

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ( "Camera obscura of the mind" )”

Life Mind Brain Behave Incidents Resilient Camera Obscura Predilection Dark Chamber Of The Heart

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“The German astronomer Johannes Kepler coined the term “camera obscura” in the early seventeenth century, but by then the phenomenon had been known for millennia; in fact, it is perhaps the oldest known optical illusion. Some form of camera obscura was most likely behind a popular illusion performed in ancient Greece and Rome, in which spectral images were cast upon the smoke of burning incense by performers using concave metal mirrors—hence the expression “smoke and mirrors.”

Rome Smoke And Mirrors Kepler Camera Obscura

Author:Jennifer Ouellette

“If we are out of step with the priorities of real life and feel lost in the anarchy of our feelings, we must assert our humbleness and assume we need the shine of a guiding lighthouse in our emotional odyssey. ("Camera obscura of the mind")”

Feelings Priorities Real Life Anarchy Humbleness Lighthouse Guiding Light Camera Obscura Emotional Odyssey Out Of Step

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.”

Together Beautiful Memories Produce Cameras Glasses Collections Beautiful Picture Camera Obscura

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)”

Ifs Whole Eye Sun Creation Painting Ideals Cameras Paint Poetic Flash Describing Whole Picture Camera Obscura

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.”

Ifs Men Doe Process Objects Circumstances Cameras Historical Arise Ideology Phenomenon Upside Down Inversions Camera Obscura

Book:The German Ideology

Source: The German Ideology

“During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.”

World Firsts Long Helping Reality Eternal Photography Cameras Photograph Decades Drawing Stable Exposure Static Unshakable Camera Obscura

Book:The Language of New Media

Source: The Language of New Media

“I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.”

I Can Photography Cameras Coffins Camera Obscura

Author:Bill Jay

“Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.”

Dream Memories Sleep Crime Negative Cameras Irreversible Camera Obscura

Book:The Prince of Tides: A Novel

Source: The Prince of Tides: A Novel

“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”

Way Said Fall Dark Rooms Shadow Aspect Window Cameras Tiny Painter Association Sunlight Projection Upside Down Jung Dark Room Shadow Work Camera Obscura

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.”

Said Fall Shadow Aspect Association Projection Jung Shadow Work Camera Obscura

Book:Diary: A Novel

Source: Diary: A Novel