Dilettantism Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research. — Brian Eno
• True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments… — Henry David Thoreau
• The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. — Max Weber
• Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid. — Leon Wieseltier
• I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only… — Justus von Liebig
• Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. — Jean Cocteau
• Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. — Thomas Carlyle
• He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
• To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. — Hans Hofmann

Who Wrote These Dilettantism Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Dilettantism Quotes as follows:

• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Brian Eno
• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Max Weber
• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Leon Wieseltier
• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Justus von Liebig
• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Jean Cocteau
• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset
• 1 Dilettantism Quote by Hans Hofmann