Three Quote by George Saintsbury Download Open image “So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.” — George Saintsbury ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Three
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Maybe even more important than the D.B.P. [Divine Brotherhood of Pythagoras], ∞-wise is the protomystic Parmenides of Elea (c.515-? BCE), not only because of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“This Aristotle knew definitely: the truth has the power to force or constrain men, all men alike, whether it be the great Parmenides and… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“The names of the twelve qualities reveal their natures. These names are not given to them until they are called to discipleship. They are:… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“According to widely accepted mythology Elizabethans considered themselves descended from the Romans through another Brutus, the great-grandson of Aeneas.” — David Bevington Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. — Robert South Copy Share Image
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.” — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I have three words for you," EMT Guy said. "Possible internal bleeding." I turned back to him. "Don't you think if I was bleeding… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
There's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya. It's not that Libya… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
What about you three, where are you going?" Even before Halt answered, Will knew what he was going to say. But that didn't make… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
