The Philosophotographer: Archive

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.” —Robert Frost, “Desert Places”

Jun 13, 2013

“The noblest fiction is a fetish, the most sublime fictitious sentiment is a vice.” —Martin Buber, I and Thou

Jun 10, 2013

Jun 10, 20131 note

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“I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” —Chuang Tzu, Nua-Hua Chen-Ching

Mar 16, 20134 notes

#Chuang Tzu #Zhuangzi #Taoism #butterfly #dreaming

Mar 16, 20134 notes

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“Nature absolutely paints like the harlot..and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge..so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him.” —Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Feb 23, 2013

Feb 23, 20132 notes

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“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.” —John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Feb 17, 2013

Feb 16, 2013

“But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.” —William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2

Feb 13, 2013

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Jan 7, 2013

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“We know too much and believe too readily ever to feel at home in a questioning that is powerfully experienced. For that we need the ability to wonder at what is simple, and to take up that wonder as our abode.” —Martin Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking

Dec 5, 2012

Dec 5, 20123 notes

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“Nothing perhaps is more surprising in this world of ours than the almost infinite diversity of its appearances.” —Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

Dec 5, 2012

#Hannah Arendt #appearance

Dec 5, 2012

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Dec 5, 2012

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“Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal, that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at the appointed season of the year.” —Epictetus

Nov 13, 2012

#epictetus #season

Sep 21, 20121 note

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“‘Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.” —Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Sep 11, 2012

#alexander pope #beauty

Sep 11, 20122 notes

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Sep 8, 2012

#Incoco #beauty #advertising

“Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is caught in the fabric of the world. But because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself; they are incrusted into its flesh, they are a part of its full definition.” —Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind”

Sep 8, 2012

#Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Sep 8, 2012

#dance #Lauren Ferguson

Sep 7, 2012

#jeff mikkelson #nudes

“Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace of reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?” —Robert Frost, “Reluctance”

Sep 7, 2012

#P. F. Strawson

Sep 7, 2012

“The gate of the subtle and profound female is the root of Heaven and Earth.” —Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Apr 2, 20122 notes

#Epictetus

Apr 2, 20126 notes

#Jeff Mikkelson #fashion #Lookbook #Elif for Jordan Taylor

“Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked.” —Alain, The Gods

Jan 24, 20123 notes

#Alain #The Gods #Man

Jan 24, 2012

#Fashion #Hara Partners #Jeff Mikkelson #Julia Anisimova #Lookbook #Michiko Boorberg #Note George #Q Models #Salmons & Brown

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” —Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Jan 24, 20123 notes

#A Sand County Almanac #Aldo Leopold #Nature

Jan 24, 201211 notes

#Jeff Mikkelson #Personal #Wisconsin

“There is such a thing as a luminous red, but a color is luminous as a result of its context, in its context.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Colour

Sep 27, 2011

#Jeff Mikkelson #Women Managmement #Spring Super #Beauty

“Between ourselves, these are things that I have always seen to be in remarkable agreement: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.” —Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience”

Jul 20, 20117 notes

#Montaigne

Jul 20, 20112 notes

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“The world is full of signs and information, which stand for things that no one fully understands because they, too, turn out to be mere signs for other things. Yet the real thing remains hidden. No one ever gets to see it.” —Peter Zumthor, Thinking Architecture

Jul 20, 2011

#Jeff Mikkelson #Signs #Personal

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” —Francis Bacon, “Of Beauty”

May 17, 2011

May 17, 20112 notes

#Beauty #Highlights Magazine #Jeff Mikkelson #Evelina Mambetova #Henry Miller

“The resistance of the thing sustains the action of man as air sustains the flight of the dove; and by projecting himself through it man accepts its being an obstacle; he assumes the risk of a setback in which he does not see a denial of his freedom.” —Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

Mar 31, 20111 note

#Simone de Beauvoir #Freedom

Mar 31, 2011

#Jeff Mikkelson #Guise Magazine #Jill Serra #Beauty

“The community of causes and consequences in which we are enmeshed is the widest and deepest symbol of the mysterious totality of being the imagination calls the universe. It is the embodiment for sense and thought of that encompassing scope of existence the intellect cannot grasp. It is the matrix within which our ideal aspirations are born and bred.” —John Dewey, A Common Faith

Mar 30, 20112 notes

#Community #Imagination #John Dewey #Universe

Mar 30, 2011

#Jeff Mikkelson #Personal

“I am never here only, as this encapsulated body; rather, I am there, that is, I already pervade the room, and only thus can I go through it.” —Martin Heidegger, “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”

Mar 25, 20112 notes

#Martin Heidegger #Body

Mar 25, 20111 note

#Jeff Mikkelson #Personal #Nudes

“Human society is not only a world of work. Simultaneously, or successively, it is made up of the profane and the sacred, its two complementary forms. The profane world is the world of taboos. The sacred world depends on limited acts of transgression. The taboo would forbid the transgression, but the fascination compels it.” —Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

Mar 20, 201111 notes

#Georges Bataille #Erotism #Sacred #Profane

Mar 20, 20112 notes

#Jeff Mikkelson #Noi.se Magazine #Fashion

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