Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false...

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false...

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not...

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not...

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but...

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but...

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than...

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than...

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and...

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and...

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is...

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter...

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter...

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.

To broaden one's prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves...

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves...

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will...

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will...

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can...

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can...

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask,...

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask,...

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects...

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects...

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than...

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than...

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.