Ark Quote by William Cowper

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently…

— Ambrose Bierce

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars,…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

“Those who are in the orbit, but nonetheless on the edges, can often be the real discoverers. It was why at times, the journalist,…

— Bob Woodward

“Art is the endeavour to sense the invisible rhythms that surround us, to discover their law, to turn chaos to order.”

— Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

— William Shakespeare

Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never…

— Anna Kingsford

“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

— Dan Brown

Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light,…

— Grace Coolidge

“The day drew on, was swallowed in dusk. No bird called, no insect. Life in abeyance, the world itself grinding to a halt, who…

— William Gay

Painters 'see' the world; musicians 'hear' it.

— John Densmore