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State Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
- All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a…
- 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,…
- The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
- There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must…
- All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila