Art Quote by Edward Gibbon

“If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts…

— Edward Gibbon

“He was angry; not as the irritable, from chafing of a trifle; nor was his anger like the fool's, pumped from the wells of…

— Lew Wallace

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which…

— David Hume

“The philosophers say that the passions are too lively, too fiery; in truth they are weak and languid. All around one sees the mass…

— Charles Fourier

“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history,…

— William James

“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the…

— Thomas Mann

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“I formed the impression that nature had given him little patience for fools, while society had cruelly decreed that he spend a great deal…

— Andrew Killeen

“Revolution thus ran its course from city to city, and the places which it arrived at last, from having heard what had been done…

— Thucydides

“Then our minds go through an entire revolution. We are no more troubled by anger and hatred, no more bitten by envy and ambition,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Futility can lead to thought, the laughable can become serious, and depth can succeed superficiality. Not all the time, and not necessarily, it goes…

— Anonymous