Brave man Quote by Joseph Addison

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

— Joseph Addison

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

— T. S. Eliot

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only…

— Anton Webern

The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer…

— African Spir

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over…

— Jules Verne

“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic…

— Claude Calame

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement…

— Guy Debord

“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to…

— C.S. Lewis

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

— Democritus

“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky