“The entire Ethics is a voyage in immanence; but immanence is the unconscious itself, and the conquest of the unconscious. Ethical joy is the correlate of speculative affirmation.” JoyUnconsciousSpinozaImmanence Book:Spinoza: Practical Philosophy Source: Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised - and because of that, all the more exhilarating.... I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values, and, in any case, make no mistake, a work of ardent celebration.... I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range... I am struck by the high value, for a man, of a simple permanent fact, like the miserable vista on which the window of his room opens daily, that comes, with the passing of time, to have an important role in his life. I often think that the highest destination at which a work of art can aim is to take on that function in someone's life.” LifeArtBeautySimplicityValueCelebrationFamiliarityImmanence Author:Jean Dubuffet
“It is consoling that he who must judge us dwell in us to save us always from all of our miseries, and to pardon us.” JudgmentDwellingSaving SoulsImmanence Author:Thérèse de Lisieux
“To hear an Oriole sing May be a common thing — Or only a divine. It is not of the Bird Who sings the same, unheard, As unto Crowd — The Fashion of the Ear Attireth that it hear In Dun, or fair — So whether it be Rune, Or whether it be none Is of within. The "Tune is in the Tree —" The Skeptic — showeth me — "No Sir! In Thee!” PoetrySongBeautyCreationPerceptionDickinsonImmanence Author:Emily Dickinson
“What was not possessed of the 'fat light'--an immanence that shed radiance over the world of gross matter--should be left to the portraitists of sausage-shaped ladies and their rich consorts.” BourgeoisieInner LightImmanence Book:American Meteor Source: American Meteor
“Though it bore some semblance of a perpetual immanence; in truth, it was a prescient and persistent presence, enthralled in a cyclic temporality.” TemporalityPrescienceImmanence Author:George Josse