Nature of man Quote by Thomas De Quincey Download Open image ““the tyranny of the human face”” — Thomas De Quincey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature of man
“One face is given to us by God. The other, we make ourselves. -Skull Man” — Shotaro Ishinomori Copy Share Image
The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
“His face was the sort of British face from which emotion has been so carefully banished that a foreigner is apt to think the… — Edward Lucas White Copy Share Image
“Faces have a near-unwatchable intimacy, particularly in a world in which everything perishes in the end. It is difficult to look as we choose,… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
“Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“To think, for instance, that I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue… — David B. Dacosta Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.” — Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau Copy Share Image
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells! — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in the morning. — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
