Epiphany Quotes

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Looking into the spirit of others is sometimes like looking

Looking into the spirit of others is sometimes like looking into a pond. Though we aim to see what's deep in the bottom, we are often distracted by our own reflection.

Katina Ferguson

Inspirational Epiphany Philosophy Of Life

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

Reality Knowledge Feelings Confusion Chaos Story Meaning Emotion Awareness Epiphany Harmony Aesthetic Emotion Epiphanies

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.

Death Humanity Children Gratitude Parent Human Nature Epiphany Insight Contradictions Contradictory Love And Death Love And Loss

Any great art work revives and readapts time and space, and

Any great art work revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

Art Creativity Inspirational Epiphany Aesthetics Transcendence Epiphanic Moment

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.

Constantine E. Scaros

Inspirational Philosophical Epiphany Quest

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of ra

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Albert Einstein

Humor Funny Creativity Inspiration Epiphany

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone -

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

True Love Epiphany