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“Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.”

Doe Feelings Painting Sight Invention

Author:Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.”

Long Feelings Courses Serious Higher Exercise Activity Discovery Originals Silent Invention Flash Cultivation

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.”

Littles Persons Feelings Attention Knowing Greater Objects Creatures Fellows Deny Invention Superiors Esteem Preference Ceremony Endeavour Uneasy Uneasy Feelings

Author:Charles Lamb

“One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.”

Believe Has Beens Done Feelings Religion Turns Women Modern Effects Sweet Depends Intellectual Communicate Invention Therapy Distinction Relative Protestantism

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.”

Way Two Feelings Wanted Form Found Belief Invention Efficiency Haunting Two Ways

Author:Anna Louise Strong