Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Source: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, p. 90
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
§ 129
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Context: The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.
“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
The Earth, Act IV, l. 403
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Alexander Calder (1898–1976) American artist
En.wikiquote.org - Alexander Calder / Quotes / 1930s / Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture (1933)
1930s, Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture (1933)
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
In this work are exhibited in a very high degree the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ~ Samuel Johnson, "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Lives of the English Poets (1781) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lvpc10.txt <br class="br">Misattributed
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
On meeting Michèle Duvalier, quoted by Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position http://books.google.com/books?id=PTgJIjK67rEC&pg=PA11&dq=%22I+think+it+is+very+beautiful+for+the+poor+to+accept+their+lot%22, (Verso, 1995), page 5 <br class="br">1990s
“Familiar habit makes for indolence.”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Source: The Lucky One
“Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.”
Joseph Addison book Cato
Act I, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)