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MAGIC, WONDER
There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.
Aristotle 384-322BC, Parts of Animals
"The contemplation of God's works produces knowledge, though with regard to him, not
perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge."
Bacon, Francis; Advancement of Learning, 1605
WONDER, R/L BRAIN, LOGIC, REASON, MAYA, PERCEPTION
*"The sense resembles the sun, which shows the terrestrial globe but conceals the
celestial, for thus the sense discovers natural things, while it shuts up divine."
Bacon, Francis; Advancement of Learning, 1605
In this sense, each human being is a process-- a filtering process of retention or
rejection, absorption or loss. The process gives him individuality. It determines whether
he justifies the gift of human life or whether he lives or dies without having been
affected by the beauty of wonder and the wonder of beauty, without having had any real
awareness of kinship or human fulfillment.
N. Cousins, The Celebration of Life
...he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and
insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their
encounter--
Eco
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true
art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom
and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their more
primitive forms-- this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
- Einstein
MIRACLES, WONDER, MYTH
So if we wish to know all things that were worthy of imitation, we must give the
legendary a place in our studies and our observations.
Joubert
Artists tweak heartstrings, stretch imaginations and pre-existing conceptions. They
integrate beauty and excellence in nature and juxtapose wonder.
Kall
"WONDER is born of IGNORANCE,
And is mother of KNOWLEDGE."
- Metastasio
There is a dance of miracles
holding hands in a chain around the earth
and out through space to the moon,
and to the stars and beyond the stars;
And to behold this dance is enough:
So much brighter, and secret looking,
and glimpses of wonder and dreams of terror.
It is enough! It is enough!
James Oppenheim
A man who possesses keen intelligence, is little moved to wonder. And the same is
true of him who lacks it. Wonder marks the limit of our knowledge and is often
evidence of the imperfection of our minds, rather than of the perfection of exterior
objects.
Vauvenargues203
WONDER
The way to touch all the springs of wonder in us is to get before our eyes as
thought, that which we are feeling and doing. The things that we do we think not.
What I am I cannot describe anymore than I can see my eyes. The moment
another describes to me the man I am-- pictures to me in words that which I was
feeling and doing, I an struck with surprise. I am sensible of a keen delight. I be
and I see my being at the same time. The glances from itself to the pictures with
lively pleasure
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
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