Elements Quotes - Page 6

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.

Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

I can be a subversive element.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first.

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.