America Quote by Matthew Arnold

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need…

— John Dryden

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves…

— Francis Parkman

What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Curiosity is the engine of civilisation

— Peter Cundill

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

— Richard Whately

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms…

— Cornel West

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“(during a conversation about how "unlucky" intelligent, passionate people are who don't know what they want precisely) By the very nature of what we…

— Kelly Chase Offield

Even the most useless thing become interesting ,if you're interested in it, and most interesting things become nothing, if you are not interested in…

— Senoraroy

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson