Baser Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them. — Machado de Assis
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made… — C.S. Lewis
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
[to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. — Ted Dekker
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can… — Charles Colson
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from… — Margaret Wertheim
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found,… — Simon Greenleaf
Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of… — Edward Fitzgerald
The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.… — Theodore H White
Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold. — William Morley Punshon

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