Constructs Quotes - Page 9

• To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

  Gustav Mahler

  Writing, Symphony, World

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• Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Ideas, Ruins, Debris

  "Anselm Kiefer’s Remembrance of Things Past" by Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

  Eric Voegelin

  Philosophy, Spring, Philosophical

  Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.273, University of Missouri Press

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• True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

  John W. Davis

  Mistake, Stress, Eye

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• A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

  Reynolds Price

  Home, Opposites, Silence

  Reynolds Price (1989). “A common room: essays, 1954-1987”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

  Anne Carson

  Emotional, Thinking, Sensual

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• When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

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• If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

  Leonard Sax

  Boys, Random Violence, Racing

  Leonard Sax (2009). “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men”, p.168, Basic Books

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• In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our feelings, we experience energy, and from our intuitions and our feelings, we experience motion.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Space, Feelings

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

  Shirin Neshat

  Symbolism, Different, Use

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• The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.

  Lorna Simpson

  Thinking, Too Much, Way

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• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Simple, Discovery, Years

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

  Charles Traub

  Interesting, Serendipity, Encounters

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• Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

  Susan Neiman

  Self, Order, Justice

  Susan Neiman (2009). “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists”, p.430, Princeton University Press

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• I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Couple, Hate, Ocean

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• Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).

  Anthony Braxton

  Challenges, Fundamentals, Information

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• All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.

  George Steiner

  Art, Criticism, Phrases

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Dream, Hard Work, Reality

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• Know that whatever is happening in your life right now, it's there for a reason. Just accept the things the way they are. Just relax and let go of all the mental constructs that your mind is creating. Acceptance leads to wholesome right action.

  Brandon Bays

  Letting Go, Healing, Acceptance

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• [Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.

  Douglas Crimp

  Art, Real, Self

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• We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

  Timothy Leary

  Past, Reality, Brain

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.40, Ronin Publishing

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• I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

  Dan Fogelman

  Guy, Puppets, Above And Beyond

  "The Neighbors' Dan Fogelman on turning a critical flop into 'an unstoppable beast'". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 02, 2013.

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• Men's sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can reach WITHIN women to fvck/construct us from the inside out. Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women's own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, even if she does not feel forced.

  Judith Levine

  Sex, Powerful, Mean

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• Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

  Guido Molinari

  Brain, Different, Patterns

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• While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

  Raquel Cepeda

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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