Creation Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay Download Open image “Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.” — Thomas B. Macaulay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creation Hands Imposition Priests
“The typical premodern ruler gave money to priests, philosophers and poets in the hope that they would legitimise his rule and maintain the social… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“But even among the great traditional peoples, the situation is not different: from China to Greece, from Rome to the primordial Nordic groups, then… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Therefore, O my brothers, is a new nobility needed: to oppose all mob-rule and all despotism and to write anew upon new law-tables the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
“If there's one thing this world needs more of, it's thoughtful Nobles," the left hand jeered.” — Hideyuki Kikuchi Copy Share Image
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“by my mother I am of the royal blood; for the children of Asamoneus, from whom that family was derived, had both the office… — Flavius Josephus Copy Share Image
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“am not suggesting that successes in academics, athletics, or vocation somehow stand outside God’s good plan. Learning and play are joys that God himself… — Timothy Paul Jones Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
I believe if there is a creator it will basically ask me two questions, how well did you enjoy my creation and what did… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image