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“I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.”

Sometimes Feelings Color Expression Primitive Pessimist

Author:Karel Appel

“Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.”

Mean Used Passion Virtue Expression Morality Violent Cloaks Sadistic Concealing

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.”

Men Beautiful Animal Expression

Author:John Carroll

“If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Body Seems Term Interest Pleasure Views Support Expression Productions Point Of View Superiors Patriarchy Reproduction Powerlessness Maternity Physical Strength

Book:Women & madness

Source: Women & madness

“We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing.”

Men Moments Growth Principles Expression Conscious Fundamentals Symbols Greek Our Time Unconscious Metamorphosis Memories Dreams Reflections Right Moment Fundamental Principles

Author:Carl Jung

“One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”

Ifs Light Answers Middle Expression Excellence Worthy Contradiction Collapse

Author:Barry Lopez

“Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.”

Joy Perfect Expression Quiet Dignity Concentration Competence

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.”

Ifs Way Mean Self Desire Values Objects Expression Fit Integrity Diversity Connections Sacred Oneself Sexuality Honestly One Way Impulse Recognizing Arena Orientation Misused

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.”

“For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens) it has been used more and more economically for reasons of truth (Millet, Monet, Paul Cézanne) until it will end as the straight line for reasons of Love. This will enable the art of the future to create an international form; a form understandable to all and vital enough to the expression of a general feeling of love in a monumental way. Such is the future.”

Way Has Beens Art Ends Reason Enough Feelings Form Used Lines Expression International Technique Straight Lines Few Words Raphael Monet Rubens Phidias

Author:Theo van Doesburg

“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.”

“Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.”

Needs Mind Mean States Moments Form Individual Creation Particular Expression Mood Rhythm Release Colour Appropriate State Of Mind Imperatives Individual Work

Author:Lyonel Feininger

“In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.”

Seems Form Force Powerful Violence Awareness Expression Constant Terror Myth Colour Primitive Irrelevant Niceties

Author:Adolph Gottlieb

“At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.”

Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays

“If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.”

Ifs Problem Expression Tools Notion Analysis Convenient Generalization Specialization

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.”

Has Beens Made Class Doors Objects Expression Argument Reasoning Exception Restriction Freedom Of Expression

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.”

Years Past Expression Scientist Available Fifty Conventions Over The Past

Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age

Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age

“If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.”

Ifs Thinking Social Pay Expression Taxes Democrat Finest

Author:Mona Sahlin

“Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.”

Stills Individual Example Expression Internet Advantage Structure Democratic Marketing International Advertising Corporate Realistic Vehicle Sooner Or Later Technological Individual Expression

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.”

War Special Expression Speech Members University Obligation Officials Permit Free Expression

Author:C. Vann Woodward

“To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.”

War States Views Expression Speech Intellectual Strikes Free Expression Intellectual Freedom

Author:C. Vann Woodward

“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”

Ifs Choices Numbers Information Television Expression Elements Vehicle Formation Ranking Conveying

Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture

“In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.”

Men Eye Law Purpose Strong Results Doubt Wife Expression Consequence No Doubt

Author:William Henry Maule

“"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.”

Lines Expression Crow Straight Lines Picturesque

Author:William Henry Maule

“I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.”

Want Beautiful Dies Expression Wanting To Die

Author:Dean Potter

“Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.”

Needs Humans Soul Facts Spirit Certain Universe Emotion Greater Expression Despair Findings Profound Boredom Sublime Human Spirit Boundless Human Emotions

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.”

Needs Humans Wealth Creative Expression Fellows Manifest Creative Expression

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.”

Opinion Expression Iron Fists Free Expression

Author:Neal Boortz

“The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.”

Mean Expression Concepts Oneself

Book:Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

“Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.”

Way Looks May Strong Expression Surface Poison Fabric Doomed Vigorous Germs Poisonous Puritanism

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.”

Should Doe Spiritual Expression Offers Workers Satisfaction Mediums Faculty

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him”

Want Said Used Guy Talking New York Expression My Friends Fairs Yesterday Lovely Crafts Polish Glitter Disgusted Turds

Author:Steve Williams

“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

May Has Beens Said Seems Age Form Found Individual Given Religious Numbers Expression Industry Periods Evidence Concern Being True Substitutes Factories Gothic Cathedrals

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.”

Art Self Purpose Expression Glory Art Is Sake Threatening Glory Of God Self Expression True Purpose Purpose Of Art

Author:Philip Graham Ryken

“In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating all the proper controls and using considerable technical virtuosity. When he saw Crick's exasperated expression he said, "but Dr. Crick, we have got it right - we know it's right," Crick's response was, "The point is not whether it's right. The point is: does it even matter whether its right or wrong?"”

Knows Long Doe Said Matter Done Facts Pain Saws Expression Response Complicated Experiments Occasions Therapy Injury Drs Psychologist Incorporating Pedantic Virtuosity

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.”

Different Universe Levels Written Expression Higher Higher Level Samadhi True Wisdom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.”

People Looks Stills Kids Moving House Football Expression Creatures Managers Soccer Los Angeles Chairman Zoos Reptiles Mourinho

Author:Julian Sands

“No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

May Art Self Philosophy Earth History Expression Claims Pearls Self Expression Oysters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.”

Mind I Can Helping Artist Order Natural Talking Subjects Figures Expression Personality Size

Author:Norman Rockwell

“Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.”

Whole Football Expression Dictionary Commentators Cantona

Author:Barry Davies

“"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”

Wisdom Christian Politics Term Religious Economy Expression Socialism Liberalism Contradiction Implying

Book:Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

Source: Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

“It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do.”

“Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.”

Thinking Feels Wells Art Certain Style Expression Buddhism Type Findings Designer Clothings How You Feel

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.”

Eye Literature Simple Forever Expression Victory Despair Hatred Excitement

Book:Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

Source: Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches

“Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed" - it follows that the governed must, in order to exercise their right of consent, have full freedom of expression.”

Government Order Accepting Atheism Expression Exercise Independence Positive Atheism Consent Declaration Premises Freedom Of Expression Declaration Of Independence Consent Of The Governed

Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.”

Real Problem Results Attention Issues Atheism Expression Bases Critical Positive Atheism Neglect Corrections Real Problems Suppression Grievance Confronting Unrest

Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.”

Writing Would Be Able Desire Impossible Atheism Subjects Expression Offers Sake Positive Atheism Profession Atmosphere Consistently Disobedience Civil Disobedience Trunks Satyagraha

Book:Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

Source: Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance

“In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.”

“You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.”

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