Extravagance Quote by Bernard Williams Download Open image “An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.” — Bernard Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extravagance Religion Spirit
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It's the light of you. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Deep within, you know that the only thing that is truly important is being in alignment with spirit. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Depth of inner spirit speaks to the strength inside each of us to change when needed, withstand temptation when presented, and do what is… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking. — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense,… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“That an action would be cowardly is not often found by an agent to be a consideration in its favor, but it could be,… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. — Masaru Ibuka Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel good. I… — Maria Valverde Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees,… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
