#ture

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#communication #creation #direct #emerson #ended

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. ↗

— Robert Musil

#cast #existence #good #optical #our

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#believes #considerations #considers #development #fascism

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#back #continue #distant #events #forward

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. ↗

— Leslie What

#hermit #literature #simile #wilderness #funny

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#attitudes #exposed #failure #leaders #life

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#imagination #legislature #morals #sex #speak

In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#building #case #corner #fence #gate

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. ↗

— Dave Navarro

#guitar #guitar playing #just #me #nature