“Do we have anything in music for example that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?”
Quoted from a 1982 lecture
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Morton Feldman13
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Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer
Source: Working for the Devil
“Everything just blows me away.”
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836) French ''abbé'' ad statesman
Messieurs, nous avons un maître, ce jeune homme fait tout, peut tout, et veut tout.
Speaking of Napoleon I of France, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), "Character", p. 105.
“I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.”
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher
Letter to Pierre Perrault, 'Sur la préface de M. Perrault de son traité de l'Origine des fontaines' (1673), Oeuvres Complètes de Christiaan Huygens http://books.google.com/books?id=9IVA7sK_Bh8C (1897), Vol. 7, 298. Quoted in Jacques Roger, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought, ed. Keith R. Benson and trans. Robert Ellrich (1997), 163
Tarkan (1972) Turkish singer
Tarkan finds his moves take him across borders, CNN Worldbeat, August 9, 1999 http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9908/09/tarkan.wb/index.html,
“The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago