“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.” MenMeanDoeScienceNatureLosesNaturalSecretFindingsPerfectionCuriosityAppearanceWisestWisest Man Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.” VoiceNaturalPowerfulActingEventsRoundsAppearanceEveningTriumphCharmTouchingPeculiarCharmingFlexibleExquisiteJennyGreat Events Author:Queen Victoria
“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.” Has BeensFeelingsNaturalEmotionObjectsEssentialsIndependentAppearanceMeaningless Author:Kazimir Malevich
“In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.” IfsHumansKindImportantSeemsActionFormCertainSocialNaturalExistenceCasesProduceParticularExerciseUniversalRelationAppearanceLocalsFeaturesSocial LifeHuman Actions Book:Philosophy and Real Politics Source: Philosophy and Real Politics
“Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.” MindMayFeelingsBeliefNaturalEmotionCryMovementTearsSeriousCircumstancesLaughterResourcesOvercomingMereAppearanceAbsenceViolentDefinedContrastContradictoryReconcileInvoluntary Book:Lectures on the English Comic Writers Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers
“The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world).” WorldTodayNamesCommunityNaturalCitiesGreaterPlansStreetsProjectsAppearanceSettingSettingsOur TimeNeighborhoodConstructionFactoriesIsolatedSocialistSensibilitySiteWorkplaceHighwaysNatural WorldComradeSettlementExternal AppearanceConstruction Projects Author:Fritz Todt