Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
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I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life.
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Live the questions.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.
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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
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A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar.
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed.
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Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
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Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.
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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . .
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it.
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called.
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I wish they would only take me as I am.
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought to law to weed it out.
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Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
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No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
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Nothing is to be feared but fear.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
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Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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