Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism.… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“We take this idea of love (being loved, rather than loving) with us into adulthood. Grown up, we hope for a re-creation… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous… — Anne Brontë 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
“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
I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
“During the wars of the Empire while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and… — David Downie 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
“(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks… — Mary Ann Evans 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
“On reflection, falling in love for him was not only extraordinary, but rather comical. By having closely observed Kiyoaki Matsugae, he knew… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“In our resistance to the business mentality, we are still Spanish, stubbornly Spanish. Also, we have not stopped being Catholic, nor have… — Juan José Arévalo 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
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Depending on which flavor of academic scholarship you prefer, that age had its roots in the Renaissance or Mannerist periods in Germany,… — David Downie Copy Share Image
“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I… — Roger Cardinal Copy Share Image
“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
