Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls… — William Morris Copy Share Image
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,… — Eliot Noyes Copy Share Image
Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by… — Steve House Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is,… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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