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- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
- Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
- All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do…
- Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of…
- A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a…
- The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their…
- It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
- Biography lends to death a new terror.
- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…
- His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do…
- I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
- The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate…
- Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
- I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
- Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
- He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when…
- There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins…
- Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
- There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
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- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin