Allegory Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allegory Efficiency Ends Madness Means Modern age Modernity Sanity
“In a world muddled with madness, I made a conscious effort to stay sane.” — Angela Colleen Prendergast Copy Share Image
“Sane...Insane, it's all a matter of balance. Keeping your sanity is like walking a tightrope across some great abyss. If the slightest thing goes… — Terry Lovett Copy Share Image
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“it was the moment in which a sane man who is talking to a lunatic has not yet perceived that his companion is mad.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We… — Laurie Green Westlake Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly and is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
