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The Guggenheim Museum

2020-03-11 · 941 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

The Guggenheim Museum — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife C
The Guggenheim Museum — pen and ink drawing

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"His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife." – Charles Churchill, "The Rosciad" (1761),

"The will, as the thing-in-itself, constitutes the inner, true, and indestructible nature of man; yet in itself it is without consciousness. For consciousness is conditioned by the intellect, and the intellect is a mere accident of our being, for it is a function of the brain. The brain, together with the nerves and spinal cord attached to it, is a mere fruit, a product, in fact a parasite, of the rest of the organism, in so far as it is not directly geared to the organism's inner working…

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