“The truth is, people are ravenous for sex, sociopaths for love. I sometimes like to daydream that if we were all somehow… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
Siphonophores do not convey the message a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter… — John Maxwell Hamilton Copy Share Image
“If you are my flower and I your water, you'll be with me always watered” — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“The shapes I seemed to see - or saw, for if a man sees visions with the interior sight he sees them,… — R.B. Cunninghame Graham Copy Share Image
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The individualism of the Romantic theory of interpretation attempts to abstract the individual from his historical context by presenting him with the… — Andrew Louth Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“On the whole, although Zuleika is shallow and vain, we don’t blame her for her disastrous effect on Oxford because we perceive… — Sara Lodge Copy Share Image
“For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I still remember that feeling of walking somewhere confidently, seeing him mid stride and putting my foot down just fine… but feeling… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me; though he was very careful in fulfilling… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
