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“Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.”

Inspiration Conditions Divine Demand Intellect Active Enthusiasm Excellent Conception Cooperation Marvelous

Author:Giorgio Vasari

“I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.”

Men Humans Self States Facts Culture Existence Conditions Civilization Ideals Tradition Active Factors Cosmos Ecology Find Me Demonstration Constellations

Book:The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

Source: The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

“It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.”

Source: Problems of Life and Mind

“I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.”

People Thinking Men Humans Suffering Understanding Creative Conditions Possibility Particular Gay Empathy Active Mutual Human Condition Solidarity Homophobia Gay Men

Author:Adrienne Rich

“I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.”

Want Mind Littles Wish Conditions Valuable Active Lazy Leisure Passive Idleness Wish You

Book:Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

Source: Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

“It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.”

Firsts Two Ideas Facts Problem Grows Education Responsibility Conditions Information Students Capacity Productions Active Range Two Things Quests New Ideas Educator Learners

Book:Experience And Education

Source: Experience And Education

“...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].”

“Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.”

Difficult Realizing Natural Conditions Infinite Active Contemplating

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .”

Mind Kind States Might Fall Special Conditions Duty Creating Add Photographer Active State Of Mind Blank Truck Receptive Curb Bumper Falling Off Special Times

Author:Minor White

“You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).”

Trying Play Acting Conditions Emotional Overcoming Intention Active Doings

Book:The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor