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- Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
- The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;…
- At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in…
- A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.
- A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous…
- To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at…
- If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it…
- I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries…
- To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for…
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
- There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,…
- Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we…
- The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the…
More Something Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams