“In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.” MenMaySoulEndsFormConditionsObjectsCircumstancesCommunicateDestroyedVarietyInternalsSurroundDisagreeImpressDefinite Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.” WorldWayFirstsTwoUseForceObjectsUnderstoodAppreciationPrimariesRelateManipulationSurround Book:Who is Man? Source: Who is Man?
“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.” WorldBelieveRealUniverseBrainEventsObjectsIllusionPrisonCurrentsSurround Author:Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
“Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in interesting ways, sometimes in stupid ways - there's no division between the art object and what surrounds it.” PeopleIfsWayArtSometimesInterestingStupidObjectsDivisionSurroundInteresting WaysExhibitionist Author:Ben Lerner
“If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.” IfsMenHumansMeanWarEndsGovernmentLyingClearAirFieldsObjectsSourceActivityConflictDefeatPopulationPropagandaSurroundCentreFogDiplomacyOpposingSubjugationHuman WillBlockades Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high.” MenLooksMeanLightEyeEarthTurnsUniverseCoursesObjectsFineEternalMereHis EyesSurroundContemplatingHungAmazedLampsMajestyLoftyDotsCircuitsOrbitDazzlingOrbs Author:Blaise Pascal
“The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.” ThinkingWorldImportantRealFeelingsModernObjectsMaterialsFamiliarSurroundAssociationIdentifyingStrandsMaterial World Author:Michael Craig-Martin