Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I be...come a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part and particle of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything th...at exists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all..., do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices that... may accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the first place, sculpture is dependent on certain lights, namely those from above, while a picture carries everywhere with it ...its own light and shade; light and shade therefore are essential to sculpture. In this respect, the sculptor is aided by the nature of the relief, which produces these of its own accord, but the painter artificially creates them by art in places where nature would normally do the like. The sculptor cannot render the difference in the varying natures of the colors of objects; painting does not fail to do so in any particular. The lines of perspective of sculptors do not seem in any way true; those of painters may appear to extend a hundred miles beyond the work itself. The effects of aerial perspective are outside the scope of sculptors' work; they can neither represent transparent bodies nor luminous bodies nor angles of reflection nor shining bodies such as mirrors and like things of glittering surface, nor mists, nor dull weather, nor an infinite number of things which I forbear to mention lest they should prove wearisome.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools' caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while ever...ybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The intellect,--that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are ...transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all ci...vil countries in a thousand years have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover in their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beh...olders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »