“The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.” MenWorldGivingDoeArtistLanguageInformationHe ManAwakeReasoningFacultyConceptionComposerMagnetic Book:The World as Will and Representation Source: The World as Will and Representation
“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.” MenFeelsMomentsLife IsValuesAcceptingCasesCreativeHe ManBecomingWesternSatisfactionDependentFacultyFrustratedSymptomsNeuroticWorth LivingLife Is Not Worth LivingWestern Values Author:Paul Robeson
“Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.” MenStyleHe ManExerciseIntellectualFacultyReunion Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
“Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.” IfsMenNeedsKindHandsLawUsedGivenRightsConditionsHe ManDevelopmentHonorEqualLaborHarmonyProfitProtectionFacultyWomens RightsSelect Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates over the man...If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.” IfsMenMindSaidStillsTwoUseBrainEffectsHe ManFemaleMalesFacultyIntercourseFusionGreat MindsAndrogynous Author:Virginia Woolf
“We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.” MenChildrenLostHe ManBeastFacultyShockedDistinguishedInvaluable Author:C. S. Lewis