“The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.” PhilosophyFactsPoetryStepsTearsPoetSectionsVigor Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.” WayWritingHeartPhilosophyStoriesBodyEyeRaceTearsLaughterMedicineLipsVariousI RealizedSensesGutsThroatOrgansLungsExplosionsGood StoryPumpsSoma Author:Christopher Vogler
“The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.” MenMadePhilosophyLawNaturalGoneAtheismTearsBasesPositive AtheismPursuitViolentInsaneRevelationsHeavenlyDogmaPublishingMonkStatutesViolent Death Author:Ellen Battelle Dietrick