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Thomas Harrison Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“For things are historical not merely by happening, but by finding a home in consciousness.”
— Thomas Harrison, The Emancipation of Dissonance
Tagged: The Art of Protrest , Streets
“So opaque are these figures of speech that whatever significance they promise retreats to the penumbras of unintelligibility.”
— Thomas Harrison, Poetic Duplicity
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy
“We can't we dismiss the fact that unprecedented numbers of young men went mad or took their own lives in the years immediately preceding the First World War—that is, before being able to be conscripted into service.”
— Thomas Harrison, We can't we dismiss the fact that unprecedented numbers of young men went mad or took their own lives in the years immediately preceding the First World War...
“A third unspeakable subject, beyond ethics and aesthetics, is metaphysics: the study of why some aspect of totality of world events is not accidental.”
— Thomas Harrison, Ethical and Aesthetic Transcendence
Tagged: Languages of the Unsayable, The Secret of Secrecy
“As dozens of sold-out editions of Sex and Character convinced them that 'being oneself' was far from an innocent matter, an even more notorious thinker was amassing evidence for the spiritual vacuity of the age.”
— Thomas Harrison, Identity Is Not Innocent
Tagged: Sin and Intellectual Development
“It now appears that one of the things most fully understood in 1910 was misunderstanding—the vastness of its depth and promise.”
— Thomas Harrison, It now appears that one of the things most fully understood in 1910 was misunderstanding—the vastness of its depth and promise.
“And thus the project of self-realization is thrown back on the experience of self-loss from it springs.”
— Thomas Harrison, 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance
Tagged: Groundless Ground, Epistemology, Getting To Know Yourself, Loss
“The discoveries of 1910 establish no basis for social or intellectual progress... This is why Michelstaedter's suicide seems so coherent: a consequence of pushing contradictions to their deadly extreme.”
— Thomas Harrison, The discoveries of 1910 establish no basis for social or intellectual progress...
Tagged: The End And Start of Power Politics
“Here prescience can be felt in the suffering itself. To those who mistrusted all political leaders, and all practical responses to things not intellectually digested, a belligerent reaction such as war to vague fears of dissolution could only be the disease masquerading as cure.”
— Thomas Harrison, a belligerent reaction such as war to vague fears of dissolution could only be the disease masquerading as cure.
“Music tames the wildest of passions.”
— Thomas Harrison, Music tames the wildest of passions.
Tagged: Music, Creative Control Against Unleashing
“Expressionism seeks 'something else' within the figure's appearance—some recess in its surface. It does not believe that it has captured the essence of a face or a phenomenon unless it has also unveiled this 'something else,' this subjectivity, as it were, of an object, or this objectivity of a subject.”
— Thomas Harrison, Destiny at Odds with Itself
Tagged: against one world rationality, Expressionism, Beyond Science, Art History
“Nineteen ten is the spiritual prefiguration of an unspeakably tragic fatality, heard in the tones of the audacious and the anguished, the deviant and the desperate, in the art of a youth grown precociously old, awaiting a war it had long suffered in spirit.”
— Thomas Harrison, The Emancipation of Dissonance
Tagged: Wolrd War Causes
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