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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

— Tim Burton

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

— Geoffrey Beene

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

— Joseph Joubert

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

— Rob Bell

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

— Andre Maurois

Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist.

— John Joseph Adams

✗Opposing Perspectives

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

— James Thurber

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

— Gene Fowler