“Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.” Has BeensFeelingsLaughingSeeingVictimSilentBullyingBullyJoiningDisgustedJoining InKeeping Silent Author:Octavia Butler
“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.” IfsShouldMindFeelingsRealityNamesStarsSkyColdFameEternalSilentDelicateContemplatingSolitarySublimeAbyssAbstractionTranslationsPosterityFirmamentTwinkling Author:William Hazlitt
“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.” LongFeelingsCoursesSeriousHigherExerciseActivityDiscoveryOriginalsSilentInventionFlashCultivation Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)