I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
Robert Green IngersollRead
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Interpretation
Music communicates emotions and ideas that transcend spoken language.
This quote by Robert Green Ingersoll highlights the unique power of music as a universal language that conveys feelings and thoughts far more profoundly than words can. It suggests that music originated before spoken language and operates on a level that surpasses verbal communication, allowing for an emotional connection that words often fail to achieve.
In practice
In a speech about the impact of art on society, one might say, 'As Robert Green Ingersoll eloquently noted, music expresses feeling and thought, without language.'
I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.
The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.
My cooking is simply ingredients plus umami.
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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