Nature is replete with the insignificant, the individual, the momentary; mind longs for the significant, the general, the eternal.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Psychology: An Elementary Text-book (1908), translated by Max Meyer; Exact wording and attribution checked. Ebbinghaus’s interpretation of art as selection and transformation of momentary experience.
- Psychology: An Elementary Text-book (1908), translated by Max Meyer
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