Numinous

Emily Dickinson wrote that 'Nature is a haunted house - but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.'

Positive Integration

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in 'The Opposable Mind' by Roger Martin.

Simple

Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Wisdom

By three ways we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, whih is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Confucius