Valentin Tomberg Quotes

Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.

Valentin Tomberg

• Life
• World
• Together
• Soul
• Feeling
• Focus
• Imagination
• Order

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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Time
  • House
  • Giving

• There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Earth
  • Computers
  • Studying

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

  Halston Sage
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Film
  • Excited

• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Idea
  • Intelligent
  • Acceptance

• For me, a car is a mode of transport - a reliable way to get from A to B. Comfort is important. And it's very important to fit my friends and be able to go on a road trip.

  

  Jodi Balfour
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Car

• I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Life
  • Trying

• Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Feeling
  • Place
  • Emotion

• Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.

  

  Valentin Tomberg
  • Life
  • World
  • Together