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"The prologue is absolutely intriguing! I'm looking so forward to the rest of this book!" — Jul 19, 2017 02:57AM
"The prologue is absolutely intriguing! I'm looking so forward to the rest of this book!" — Jul 19, 2017 02:57AM
Perception is experienced as a coherent and fluid process only because our brain is constantly making educated guesses, filling in the gaps in information.
“Theorists see in existent forms something given, whereas in reality something so resistant as a given…which one can grasp complete in itself, never has been or will be given [in music]. Rather, musical form is something coming-into-being [Entstehendes] (to say something come-into-being [Enstandenes] may already be incorrect), at every time newly coming into being, and never except in the finished artwork itself something at hand, that can be transmitted and further utilized.42”
― In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
― In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
“28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?”
― The Enchiridion
― The Enchiridion
“Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, “You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.” And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.”
― The Enchiridion
― The Enchiridion
“26. The will of nature may be learned from those things in which we don’t distinguish from each other. For example, when our neighbor’s boy breaks a cup, or the like, we are presently ready to say, “These things will happen.” Be assured, then, that when your own cup likewise is broken, you ought to be affected just as when another’s cup was broken. Apply this in like manner to greater things. Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, “This is a human accident.” but if anyone’s own child happens to die, it is presently, “Alas I how wretched am I!” But it should be remembered how we are affected in hearing the same thing concerning others.”
― The Enchiridion
― The Enchiridion
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