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May Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the…
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history…
- The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.
- We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are…
- A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the…
- Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what…
- The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,…
- Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams
- The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the…
- In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But…
- Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking…
- But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me…
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong