My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to astonish men...men like you.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyTag: astonishment
Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyTag: emotion goethe astonishment dandies
This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the more desperately important now that she was almost certain, in her innermost heart, that her trip was a failure. Her attitude was not an astonishing one, since like many others she conceived of her life as separate from herself; the road was laid out always a little ahead of her by scared hands, and she walked down it without a question. This road, which was her life, would go on existing after her death, even as her death existed while she still lived.
Jane BowlesTag: astonishment
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia GreenTag: facts research astonishment
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.
Baruch SpinozaTag: truth thinking knowledge nature wonder miracles ignorance understanding philosopher foolish fools gods authority adoration cause causation heresy mob piety preservation astonishment interpret stare heretical impious the-gods
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