Egon Friedell Quotes

• All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

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  Faith   Knowing   Matter  

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.88, Transaction Publishers

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• Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

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  People   Vegetarian   Electricity  

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• Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

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  Art   Reality   Light  

  Egon Friedell (1953). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Introduction. book 1. Renaissance and reformation, from the black death to the thirty years' war”

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• The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

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  Reality   Hands   Genius  

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.229, Transaction Publishers

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• God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

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  Heart   Destiny   Men  

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.229, Transaction Publishers

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• We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.

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  World   Artistic   Aspect  

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

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  Artist   Long   Age  

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

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  Ideas   Movement   Loses  

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• The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.

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  Artist   Light   Views  

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.34, Transaction Publishers

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