“I am neither I
nor Other,
both I and other…”
Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 26
“I is an other.”
Letter to Georges Izambard; Charleville, 13 May 1871 http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Lettre_de_Rimbaud_%C3%A0_Georges_Izambard_-_13_mai_1871 <br class="br">Letters <br class="br">Original: (fr) Je est un autre.
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Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VIII : From God to God
Context: Not only are we unable to conceive of the full and living God as masculine simply, but we are unable to conceive of Him as individual simply, as the projection of a solitary I, an unsocial I, an I that is in reality an abstract I. My living I is an I that is really a We; my living personal I lives only in other, of other, and by other I's; I am sprung from a multitude of ancestors. I carry them within me in extract, and at the same time I carry within me, potentially, a multitude of descendants, and God, the projection of my I to the infinite — or rather I, the projection of God to the finite — must also be a multitude. Hence, in order to save the personality of God — that is to say, in order to save the living God — faith's need — the need of the feeling and the imagination — of conceiving Him and feeling Him as possessed of a certain internal multiplicity.
“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"Almighty Shape," p. 9
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Home of the Shape”
“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw —”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" Alone http://gothlupin.tripod.com/valone.html", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875). <br class="br">Context: From childhood's hour I have not been<br>As others were — I have not seen<br>As others saw — I could not bring<br>My passions from a common spring —<br>From the same source I have not taken<br>My sorrow — I could not awaken<br>My heart to joy at the same tone —<br>And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone
Julie Taymor (1952) American film and theatre director
On Frida Kahlo's work and her own
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
Context: She painted what she painted because she had to, because she was passionate about it. She didn't care at all if people bought her paintings. As she said, she painted her reality.
I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about. I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself. That's a difference.
Frida painted her own reality, her life. I'm a director and I paint many other people... Other people's realities. But I do have to invest in it.
“I think I think harder, think more than other people do, than other scientists.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) American scientist
Interview at Big Sur, California http://web.archive.org/web/20101212203431/http://achievement.org/autodoc/page/pau0int-3 (11 November 1990). <br class="br">1990s <br class="br">Context: I've been asked from time to time, "How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists?" And my answer has been that I am sure that I am not smarter than other scientists. I don't have any precise evaluation of my IQ, but to the extent that psychologists have said that my IQ is about 160, I recognize that there are one hundred thousand or more people in the United States that have IQs higher than that. So I have said that I think I think harder, think more than other people do, than other scientists. That is, for years, almost all of my thinking was about science and scientific problems that I was interested in.
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) American academic
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays (corrected edition), “The Forgotten Man” 1883 http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/sumner-the-forgotten-man-and-other-essays-corrected-edition?q=Civil+liberty+is+the+status#Sumner_1225_701.