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“Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.”

Reason Feelings Subjects Visible Rejects Rationalism

Book:Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics

“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”

Men World Want Giving Law Science Spirit Nature Born Imagination Natural Break Subjects Fool Return Giving Up Bounds Vain Visible Can Not Soar

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.”

Way Different Whole Body Faces Common Quality Subjects Color Eternal Constitution Property Appearance Substance Permanent Different Ways Visible Decay Diverse Mobile Formation

Author:Giordano Bruno

“What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.”

People Life Mind Space Subjects Infinite Embrace Accidents Visible Infinity Mechanism Globes Infinite Space

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.”

Should Film Process Subjects Remains Assuming Invisible Superiors Filmmaker Visible Portraits Topics Simplest Evoke Enigma Best Film Never Assume

Author:Damian Pettigrew

“The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. … I will also give reason and take it. … This generation has an innate vice. It can’t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!”

Giving Has Beens Reason Universe Accepting Generations Subjects Judging Method Vices Contemporary Rational Visible Innate This Generation Between You And Me

Author:Adelard of Bath

“The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.”

Reason Memories Subjects Materials Research Block Reason Why Visible Copies Concrete Sculptors Sculpting

Author:Jacques Barzun

“One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.”

Watches Subjects Stage Photography Photographer Command Impulse Visible Stage Directions

Book:The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film

Source: The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film

“The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.”

Matter Problem Subjects Media Photography Visible Portraits Subject Matter

Author:Thomas Struth