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“The greater the void, the greater the divine influx.”
― John Tauler

“The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss.”
― Iannis Xenakis

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
― Marcel Proust

“A thing has as many senses as there are forces capable of taking possession of it.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

“Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.”
― Rene Char

“Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding

“The means of obtaining as much variety as possible, but with the greatest possible order...is the means of obtaining as much perfection as possible.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”
― Plotinus

“One jests because one wants to contemplate.”
― Plotinus, The Essential Plotinus

“Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is never the deed men praise, but some marble or canvas, which are only a staging to the real work. The hugest and most effective deed may have no sensible result at all on earth, but may paint itself in the heavens with new stars and constellations. When in rare moments our whole being strives with one consent, which we name a yearning, we may not hope that our work will stand in any artist's gallery on earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I am destined to illuminate you by burning myself up.”
― Maurice Blanchot

“Nothing can chain the light.”
― Edmond Jabès, The Book of Shares

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil

“I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enameled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our Lord's living garden.”
― St. Thérèse de Lisieux

“When one loves, one does not calculate.”
― St. Thérèse de Lisieux

“Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.”
― Meister Eckhart

“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“As Christians we are always in tension — the anguish and at the same time in bliss. This is mad, ridiculous. But it is true — accepting the dark night just as we accept the brilliance of the day … But, on the other hand, the Christian is like someone who lives in three dimensions in a world in which the majority of people live in two.”
― Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray

“It is not a matter of saying that Oedipus is a false belief, but rather that belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production. That is why seers are the least believing of men.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning