There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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