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“Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.”

Events Expression Becoming Conscious Describing

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.”

Way Sometimes Hands Eye Lying Wonder Sky Expression Becoming Spread Superiors Cows Arrested Monotony Superior Intelligence

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.”

People Sometimes Form Individual Nations Social Powerful Atheism Expression Becoming Temples Altars Unbelief Priesthood

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.”

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.”

Ifs Men Persons Moments Easy Serious Expression Becoming Relaxation Unworthy Breeding Obscene Coarse Good Breeding

Book:On Obligations

Source: On Obligations