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Life Quotes by George Edward Woodberry
- To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
- Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
- Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
- The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture,…
- Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and…
- Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree…
- The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the…
- To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in…
- If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life…
- From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle