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- To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument…
- It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such…
- It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which…
- Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to…
- It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that…
- In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from…
- If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is…
- It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any…
- Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has…
- Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,…
- If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use…
- By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
- Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable…
- Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
- Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all…
- Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause…
- Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If…
- In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man…
- To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or…
- Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and…
- When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is…
- All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing…
- God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...
- All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had…
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- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
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- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs