“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.” Has BeensFeelingsNaturalEmotionObjectsEssentialsIndependentAppearanceMeaningless Author:Kazimir Malevich
“What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.” HumansFeelingsActionInterestRaceIndependentAffectionPrimariesAppealsExcellentPermanentMost Powerful Book:On the Classical Tradition Source: On the Classical Tradition
“The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelingsIndependentGood Feeling Author:Alexander Lowen
“Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed.” PeopleKnowsFeelsChildrenFeelingsDependsNeededComfortableIndependentDependentGood Feeling Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.” LooksMeanArtFactsFeelingsBeautifulEmotionPrinciplesObjectsParticularDependsArt IsAimIndependentRemainsUnionsMereBoundsAssumptionJustifyAestheticObserversGratification Author:Eduard Hanslick