#low

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#against #below #blooms #break #broad

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same. ↗

— Amos Oz

#beyond #conflict #deep #deep down #down

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow. ↗

— Paracelsus

#breath #causes #flow #flows #his

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline

Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane. ↗

— Abraham Pais

#bit #crazy #did #even #forty

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#am #believer #best #capitalism #compete

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christian #commit #duty #every #evil

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. ↗

— Paracelsus

#create #energy #firmament #flow #heaven

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#effect #everyday #everyday lives #flow #lives