“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“His brightening mind brightened his features, and added spirit and nobility to their aspect.”
— Emily Brontë, book Wuthering Heights
Nelly Dean on Hareton (Ch. XXXIII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
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“Art is naturally concerned with man in his existential aspect, not in his scientific aspect.”
Colin Wilson (1931–2013) author
Source: The Strength To Dream (1961), p. 214
Context: Art is naturally concerned with man in his existential aspect, not in his scientific aspect. For the scientist, questions about man's stature and significance, suffering and power, are not really scientific questions; consequently he is inclined to regard art as an inferior recreation. Unfortunately, the artist has come to accept the scientist's view of himself. The result, I contend, is that art in the twentieth century — literary art in particular — has ceased to take itself seriously as the primary instrument of existential philosophy. It has ceased to regard itself as an instrument for probing questions of human significance. Art is the science of human destiny. Science is the attempt to discern the order that underlies the chaos of nature; art is the attempt to discern the order that underlies the chaos of man. At its best, it evokes unifying emotions; it makes the reader see the world momentarily as a unity.
“But aspects cannot be added up.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Context: If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. <!-- 159