Augenzar

always looking around, and beyond; always perceiving, and always reflecting. by Zavreio

“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions. —Sigmund Freud”

“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
—Randolph Bourne”

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. —C. S. Lewis”

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. — Auguste Rodin 

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. — Auguste Rodin 

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”

– Lewis Mumford

“A man must know how to look before he can hope to see.”

– Lord Brynden Rivers from Martin, George R.R. “A Dance with Dragons” (2011)

“Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless monsters. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.” — Goya (Esp. La fantasía abandonada de la razón produce monstruos imposibles: unida con ella es madre de las artes y origen de las maravillas.) 

“Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless monsters. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.” — Goya

(Esp. La fantasía abandonada de la razón produce monstruos imposibles: unida con ella es madre de las artes y origen de las maravillas.) 

“Beauty is found essentially and per se in the contemplative life, which consists in an act of reason. —Thomas Aquinas”

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