Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a... hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things a...gain in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The radiance of which he speaks is the scholastic quidditas, the whatness of a thing. This supreme quality is felt by the artist w...hen the aesthetic image is first conceived in his imagination. The mind in that mysterious instant Shelley likened beautifully to a fading coal. The instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the aesthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony is the luminous silent stasis of aesthetic pleasure, a spiritual state very like to that cardiac condition which the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani, using a phrase almost as beautiful as Shelley's, called the enchantment of the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical respon...sibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall natural...ly into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual s...ense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my life I have been restless--... I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »