Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 43 “Aesthetic sympathy is projecting reflections of my own personality onto every beautiful object I perceive. ” ― Theodor Lipps   Triggered by the citation in  Lipps on Empathy and the Aesthetics of Language: The Origins of a Research Program by D avid Romand : “Aesthetic sympathy is relocating impulses of my own personality into every beautiful object that I perceive. ” ― Theodor Lipps     Source: Die ethischen Grundfragen :   Zehn Vorträge , Theodor Lipps, 1. Auflage, 1899. Aller ästhetische Genuss beruht auf solcher Sympathie.    Ich verlege reproduzierte Regungen meiner eigenen Persönlichkeit in jedes wahrgenommene schöne Objekt,  z.B. in die Landschaft, in die Formen der Architektur, in die Klänge und den Rhythmus der Musik, auch schon in die einfache Linie oder Farbe.    Ich "beseele" diese Objekte, genau in dem Sinne, in dem ich den wahrgenommenen menschlichen Körper beseele.   Ich genieße mich selbst, nic...

Quote of the Week 42 “ After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ” ―  Aldous Huxley , Music at Night and Other Essays         As cited in  Kierkegaard on the Spiritual and Sensual Power of Music, the Essence of Genius, and the Key to a Timeless Work of Art .     See  Great Writers on the Power of Music  for more quotes on music.    “ Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. ” ― Victor Hugo     “Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts — it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure — and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.” ― Susan Sontag   “ Without music life would be a mistake. ” ―  Friedrich Nietzsche        

Quote of the Week 41 “ Never write if you can speak;  never speak if you can nod;  never nod if you can wink .” ― attributed to   Martin Lomasney    Variant : “ Never write if you can speak;  never speak if you can nod;  never nod if you can blink .”     Extended version : “ ...; never wink if you can do nothing .”   Modern variant : “ Never write when you can talk.  Never talk when you can nod.  And never put anything in an e-mail. .”   ― attributed to Eliot Spitzer       Abbreviated variant :   “ Don’t write when you can talk;  don’t talk when you can nod your head. ” ― Martin Lomasney   Long variant : “Don't write anything you can phone.  Don't phone anything you can talk.  Don't talk anything you can whisper.  Don't whisper anything you can smile.  Don't smile anything you can nod.  Don't nod anything you can wink.” ― Earl Long