Subtlest Quotes
34 Subtlest quotes by 34 unique authors
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
— Sivananda
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
— Joseph Epstein
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
— William James
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
— John Updike
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The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
— Kenneth R. Miller
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Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.
— David Alfaro Siqueiros
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The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest,…
— Ken Wilber
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
— Khalil Gibran
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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen…
— Marlon Brando
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Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries.
— Laozi
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Love is the subtlest force in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time,…
— E F Schumacher
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Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of…
— Kenny Smith
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Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train…
— Michelle Huneven
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine…
— Allen Tate
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The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.
— Rudolph Ballentine
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that…
— Walter Savage Landor
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I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
— Giancarlo Esposito
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We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.
— Lindy West
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We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The…
— Walter Weyl
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It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far…
— Morris Graves
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