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«Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
attributes, come up, comparable, contradictory, disciplines, formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, immense, intelligible, musical, untranslatable
«Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
attributes, complex, endowed, institution, structure, The name
«When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your spar»
Author: Natalie Clifford Barney
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attributes, elation, halo, spar, sparring, surrounds
«We're sitting on our blessed Mother Earth from which we get our strength and determination, love and humility - all the beautiful attributes that we've been given. So turn to one another; love one another; respect one another; respect Mother Earth; respect the waters - because that's life itself!»
Author: Phil Lane, Sr.
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, blessed, determination, humility, mother Earth, sitting, turn to, waters
«Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy»
Author: Richard Halloway
| About:
Living,
Value
| Keywords:
attributes, clarity, singleness, vividness
«Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.»
Author: Richard Holloway
| About:
Clarity,
God,
Joy,
Power,
Simplicity
| Keywords:
attributes, clarity, Marks, singleness, vividness
«To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the g»
Author: Pablo Casals
(Cellist, Conductor)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
activities, attributes, Bach, ephemeral, inform, strip, The G
«The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, common, common sense, hundred, list, listed, Lists of, List of, my list, number, The Last, the list, The New Yorker, top
«The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual nature, purified and enlarged to infinity. In ourselves are the elements of the Divinity.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
attributes, enlarged, infinity, IS IS, purified, The Elements, transferred
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