Brain Quote by Walt Whitman

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

— Gustave Flaubert

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote…

— John Ruskin

...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives…

— Louis Daguerre

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The…

— Rosy Cole

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

— Saadi

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more…

— Jim Gaffigan

This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to…

— Richard St. Barbe Baker