Affinities Quotes

22 Affinities quotes by 20 unique authors

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty… — Sri Aurobindo
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. — George Santayana
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively… — Joseph Paxton
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. — Remy de Gourmont
The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the… — Richard Owen
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world. — Robert Greene
Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however… — C.S. Lewis
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz
We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built… — Oswald Chambers
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. — Guillaume Canet
This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is a force entirely… — Jons Jacob Berzelius
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to… — Juan Goytisolo
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as… — Salman Rushdie
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities. — Cormac McCarthy
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We… — Vladimir Nabokov
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. — Patricia Highsmith
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. — George Santayana
It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. — John Burnham Schwartz

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