Art Quotes
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Kelle
You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.Henri Frdric Amiel
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.Dostoyevsky
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.Woodrow Wilson
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.A Bartlett Giamatti
Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light
The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.Frederic Joliot - Curie, quoted by M. A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t
Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. All Gaul is divided into three parts.Gaius Julius Caesa
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Art is science made clear.Jean Cocteau
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas Paine
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.Sir Philip Sidney
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.Percy Bysshe Shelley
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - Indeed, inevitable - The United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.Arnold Bennett
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.Saul Bellow
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.H. A. Kramers
Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.Robert J. McKain
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.LaDawnna Burnett, (1975 -), Letters on Ethics
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.Hellen Kelle
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.Thomas Jefferson
Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.Ernst Jnger, In Stahlgewittern (The Storm of Steel)
The artist should be a seeing - Eye dog for a myopic civilization.Jacob Getlar Smith
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.Joel Patrick Warneke
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
And that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
