"Those who will not reason, perish in the……" — Wystan Hugh Auden

"Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason."

— Wystan Hugh Auden

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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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