intellectual resonance Quotes

Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.