“There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age.” FirstsKindArtWholeFeelingsAgeSpiritualFormLostResultsMoralPeriodsIdealsSightFundamentalsTendenciesAtmosphereLogicalRevivalPursuedSimilarityInner Feelings Book:Concerning the spiritual in art Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.” MayEndsFeelingsIndividualViewsHigherDegreesIntentionProvidenceDispositionBenevolentInner Feelings Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.” LongFeelingsLanguageNatureSolitudeMysteriousUnconsciousInner Feelings Author:Alexandra David-Neel