There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
“One loses nobility when he does something and then says, ‘I did that.’ A noble man will incur loss from both sides;… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
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