Grosser Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.…
— George Eliot
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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in…
— Horace Bushnell
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In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the…
— Margaret Sanger
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Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the…
— Thomas Huxley
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If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.
— Swami Vivekananda
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To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems -- and arrive…
— Deepak Chopra
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Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will…
— Edward Dahlberg
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
— D. H. Lawrence
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We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often…
— Lewis Hyde
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There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact -…
— David Foster Wallace
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I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
— George Santayana
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Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you…
— DH Lawrence
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When wood burns it is the smoke alone that rises upward, leaving the grosser elements below. So it is with prayer. The sincere intention alone…
— Baal Shem Tov
Who Wrote These Grosser Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Grosser Quotes as follows: