“Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.” MenMindSpiritualEmotionQualityInfluenceHighestAppearanceOccult Author:Robert Bridges
“So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.” LongArtMovingForceNatureDealsEmotionModernPaintingHighestAspectAncientObjectivesAesthetic Author:Lawren Harris
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind.” MenMindCharacterFactsActionDesireValuesEmotionCreationProductsPrideAchievementHighestRecognitionPremises Author:John Galt
“I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments.” HeartMaySoulMomentsHandsLeftChristEmotionReadyHighestAnd LoveFilledDeedsIntellectConceptionRejoiceReignBenevolence Author:Matthew Simpson
“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.” MenFeelingsSpiritCultureLostLossResultsEmotionBrainModernIdentityDegreesHighestTrainingAspectWestForgottenEducationalSensesContemporaryReasoningAestheticInwardAlienationTruestRestlessnessEducational SystemModern ManHis Loss Author:Kallistos Ware
“The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.” ArtSaidWarSpiritSongTurnsProcessSimpleEmotionExpressionFineDramaHighestUniversalUnityComplexesRichesDespiteHuntingLowestFarmingFine ArtsAccompanyFertilityProcess Of Life Author:Gerard van der Leeuw
“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.” ChildrenArtStillsMomentsLosesLove IsEmotionConsciousnessSilenceMysteryInfluenceObjectsDivineExpressionOceanHighestMereCalmWaveWorthySunsetAutumnFloodOur LoveStatuesSymphonyRaptureRippleCaressMajesticForbidden LoveUnfathomableVistas Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
“Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.” PeopleChildrenSpeakParentEmotionPrinciplesTeachMoralityIntegrityHighestOur ChildrenSticksHonestlyYour ChildrenInstill Author:Jeff Bryant