Surreal Number/powers of %CF%89

Famous quotes containing the words surreal, number and/or powers:

    “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects—making it possible ... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “My idea is that the world outside—the so-called modern world—can only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive instinct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivors—the one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poets—and to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)