Grosser Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

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
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
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
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
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
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. — Swami Vivekananda
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. — George Santayana
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
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
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: