"A purely materialistic art would be like a……" — Haile Selassie
"A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility"
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72 Quotes by Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie has 72 quotes on this site.
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A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed…
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge…
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As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
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Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal,…
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Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
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Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness…
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If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon…
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It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the…
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in…
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That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual…
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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