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French phenomenological philosopher 1908–1961Related quotes
"Introduction" of Four Screenplays (1960). <!-- Simon & Schuster -->
Context: When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence. Ever since childhood, music has been my great source of recreation and stimulation, and I often experience a film or play musically.
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action
“We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.”
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 43
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind