Subtle Quotes

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Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however… — George Edward Woodberry
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And… — David A. Bednar
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
God is subtle but he is not malicious. — Albert Einstein
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book â€“ and that he did not learn it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton... — Annie Proulx
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic… — Oscar Wilde
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only… — Paulo Coelho
Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy. — Isaac Asimov
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
Of course itâ€™s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see… — Clive Barker
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp… — Gustave Flaubert
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of oneâ€™s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle… — Joseph Conrad
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,… — Joseph Conrad
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, â€œThis is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger… — Carl Sagan
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. — Logan Pearsall Smith
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around… — Mark Z. Danielewski
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain,… — Jules Verne

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