Heightening Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud
This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal. — Lord Byron
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. — Odilon Redon
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer… — Lewis Mumford
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his… — George Eliot
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. — Elwyn Brooks White
Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the… — Pliny the Elder
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past.… — Vikram Seth
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all… — Elwyn Brooks White
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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