"Civilizations should be measured by the degree of……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons…
— Chanakya
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained
— Peter McWilliams
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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