Innermost Quotes
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Do you know anyone who wouldsecretly, sincerely, in his innermost selfreally prefer to return to childhood?
— 1980 The Clear Light of Day, ch.1.
The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.
arshile gorky— Abstract Expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen, 2005, p. 10
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being.. every other impression becomes, for him, an inner expression.
— Erster Deutscher Herbstsalaon (1913)
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly dissimilar to, and I might even say in principle the same as, my method described above of introducing transfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.
georg cantor— As quoted in Understanding the Infinite (1994) by Shaughan Lavine
People should be beautiful in every way in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.
Anton Chekhov— Act I (Uncle Vanya (1897))
Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.
herbert marcuse— p. 72 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.
rollo may— Ch. 12 : Toward New Community
If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.
Rainer Maria Rilke— Letter Four (16 July 1903)
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.
Arthur Schopenhauer— Vol. I, Ch. III, The World As Representation
Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches The innermost recesses of my spirit!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, Part I. The Divine Tragedy. The First Passover, Part VI.
England's innermost truth and at the same time her most valuable contribution to the assets of the human family is the "gentleman", rescued from the dusty chivalry of the early Middle Ages and now penetrating into the remotest corner of modern English life. It is an ultimate principle hat never fails to carry conviction, the shining armour of the perfect knight in soul and body, and the miserable coffin of poor natural feelings.
— C.G. Jung, The Complications of American Psychology, 1930.
By the dew drop of Celestine dawn though saw a dream Like a shining star of the Milky Way, I rest on the stream Thy circular flow is constant rhythm of my fight Your ancient stone is timeless flora of thy sight Fortunate to behold the lord of the world so near You never know when and how you are his dear Divinity all over from sand lowest to peak highest Faith in the tinkling bells never moved slightest As essence of his kingdom’s innermost purity Blessed to worship the brightest in darkest sanctuary.
— A poem on Odissi in "The Glimpse of Indian Classical Dance", p.54
Every day you waste a chance, many chances in fact, of getting at your innermost consciousness by expressing yourself as you see yourself, and I say it is a pity because it makes you, year after year and day after day more like anybody else and more anonymous.
— p. 250 (The Art of Thinking (1928))
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
— p. 69 (2006 paperback edition) (Quotes)
It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability, [...] This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.
robert w floyd— p. 25 (Assigning Meanings to Programs (1967))
