Quote by Austin Osman, Spare Download Open image ““Virtue: Pure Art ”” — Austin Osman, Spare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Art is the one thing man creates not out of need or luxury; therefore, it is the purest essence of his individuality.” — Anthony Paolucci Copy Share Image
“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist… — Robert Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all. - Must I Paint You a Picture ” — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
“Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by symbolizing we… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full of misery… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . however much… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“There is no illusion but consciousness! This consciousness is ever the smiling monument commemorating "Whether you ever really enjoyed Life"! ” — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Sigils are the means of guiding and uniting the partially free belief[27] with an organic desire, its carriage and retention till its purpose served… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Something is causing Pain and something energizes the Agony: may it not be caused through the latent Idea of Supreme Bliss? And this eternal… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. Consider the… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“The difference between good and evil is a matter of profundity. Which is nearer you, self-love and its immorality or love and morals? Not… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“The law of Kia is its ever original purpose, undetermined, without change the emanations, through our conception they materialize and are of that duality,… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“The "I" principle has reached the "Does not matter- need not be" state, and is not related to form. Save and beyond it, there… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Man in the misery of his illusions and unsatisfied desires, wings his flight to different religions, and doctrines, seeks redeception, a hypnotic, a palliative… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“MAGICAL obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc., for inspiration.… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
