“I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.” I CanFeelingsValuesConceptsSubstance Author:Ella Maillart
“The compelling thing about making art — or making anything, I suppose — is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.” MenWorldLooksArtIdeasWarMomentsFeelingsSecretKnownTreeCreaturesArmyMereSubstanceTransformedNew ThingsCompellingFabulousMagicianArtemisLaurelsAthenaSwineSorceress Author:Audrey Niffenegger
“There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts - and the traditional persecution of men for their religion... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences.” MenHumansFeelingsIndividualDifferencesCommonGroupsActivityVictimFundamentalsMajorityVariousAppearanceTraditionalSmokeSubstanceDestructiveAggressiveThreatenedHomosexualPersecutionSimilarity Author:Thomas Szasz
“Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.” MindFeelingsRealityShadowAppearanceAriseSubstanceFixedEverlasting Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons
“The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.” FeelingsRealityExistenceVisionStrangeSweetIllusionSkinsBonesSubstanceMetaphysics Book:Max Beckmann Source: Max Beckmann
“At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble.” FeelingsLastsOne DayPerceptionMessagesConsciousPassionateNobleLoyaltySubstanceNationalismAlliesTheologicalPrimalAntagonistDross Author:Alfred Rosenberg