“First, an aesthetic response to particulars would radically slow us down. To notice each event would limit our appetite for events. Perhaps events speed up in proportion to their not being appreciated; perhaps events grow to cataclysmic size and intensity in proportion to their not being noticed. Attention to the qualities of things resurrects the old idea of notitia as a primary activity of the soul. Notitia refers to that capacity to form true notions of things from attentive noticing. It is the full acquaintance on which knowledge depends.”
— James Hillman, Anima Mundi: The Return of the Soul to the World
