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Topic: Face-- The 'Style' of the soul
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guy_me_19
Knowflake Posts: 133
From: What da ya think??
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted April 17, 2007 02:52 AM
 
In Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead in one chapter there is a speech by Ellsworth Monkton Toohey wherein he said something to this effect--
"A great philosopher sometime back said that in every civilization there is a style--and the philosopher used the word
'style' for the lack of a better word... now... That civilization.. Whatever it does... It is always true to that one style, that one central idea, that one principle,
just like that I think... Every soul has it's own style... Its own central idea...
And everything that a person does... All his actions... Bear the stamp of that one central idea... Now... Years of studying a particular person might not reveal to you what your one glance at his face will reveal... The face is the style of the soul... That central idea, that central principle of the soul -- just like it is reflected in every act that the person performs -- is also reflected in his face."
Well I find that profound. Anything you would wanna add to that? IP: Logged |
Obe
Knowflake Posts: 57
From: Washington state
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted April 30, 2007 11:39 PM
everything a person thinks or does, has been through, every smile and frown and tear and sound and movement and word and vision, everything that has gone through them is all there like a book whose cover if we chose to lift would be there for us to read, an infinite story. The eternal ancestry and the eternal future of those everchanging memories and intentions becoming or become part of the DNA book...IP: Logged |
BrightStar
Knowflake Posts: 22
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Registered: Apr 2007
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posted May 01, 2007 02:51 AM
Hi there, This DNA book will everyone be able to read it?IP: Logged |
Obe
Knowflake Posts: 57
From: Washington state
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted May 03, 2007 12:09 AM
I guess you could say it's in a language we all know at the most basic level, maybe we're remembering it.IP: Logged |
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