“I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.” IfsWantFeelsFeelingsNaturalEmotionStrange Book:Conversations with May Sarton Source: Conversations with May Sarton
“Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.” StillsFeelingsDesireFeltNaturalStrangeComfortableNewsUnderstoodSkinsEnvySensesVanityEnjoyedScarDirtIntriguingStill In LoveNew Feelings Author:Jim Morrison
“Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.” MenKindMadeStuffNaturalHalfStrangeTranscendingCentaurs Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself, no single detail would appear bizarre or strange or arbitrary to the reader, but rather the details would all appear natural and reasonable as they do to the natives who have lived all their lives within the culture.” IfsWholeCultureNaturalStrangeReaderAspectStressDetailsReasonableBizarreArbitrary Author:Gregory Bateson
“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.” ThinkingWorldWayNeedsWellsLittlesDifferentMomentsSeemsHappensArtistFoundGrowthNaturalModernStrangeMethodPaintTechniqueUnusualUsualNew WaysModern Art Author:Jackson Pollock
“Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.” IfsBelieveEnoughNaturalAtheismStrangeHeresy Book:Mystery at Geneva Source: Mystery at Geneva
“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.” GivingBelieveKindMayLittlesArtI CanBookSeemsRememberYoungMotherWishBitsNaturalAttentionTakenStrangeExerciseLogicDiscriminationLogicalMicroscopesSurpassingBotany Author:William Stanley Jevons
“To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music in a pop and rock mode. But they get used to it -- it is our sound.” PeopleKindDifferentUsedSoundNaturalRocksStrangePopsTraditionalIrish Music Author:Andrea Corr
“... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.” GivingMayLittlesSeemsSchoolUnderstandingNaturalViewsHistoryStrangeTheoryIntellectualMathematicsPassionateDelightMathematicalContemplationSympathetic Book:History of Western Philosophy Source: History of Western Philosophy
“A lot of the things that other people from outside the business would see as crazy or strange are just a natural part of the working process. Preparation is key, and detail and collaboration are the rule, but no matter how many hours you spend preparing, there's always something.” PeopleMatterProcessHoursNaturalCrazyStrangeKeysDetailsPreparationCollaborationPreparing Author:Russell Crowe
“It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but at the same time when you write from a place that's very personal and quite isolated, at least for me, there's something that almost doesn't feel natural about it.” WayFeelsWritingMomentsNaturalStageStrangeGet UpIsolatedFulfilment Author:Alexi Murdoch