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Quote Left If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. Quote Right
Quote Left I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people. Quote Right
Quote Left You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou ... dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist—and, in my ... Quote Right
Quote Left Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist. Quote Right
Quote Left Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an i... Quote Right
Quote Left Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Quote Right
Quote Left Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit Quote Right
Quote Left Fortunately art is a community effort—a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the... Quote Right
Quote Left Dying Is an art, like everything else.... Quote Right
Quote Left Each body has its art, its precious prescribed Pose, that even in passion's droll contortions, waltzes,... Quote Right
Quote Left Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art Quote Right
Quote Left The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. Quote Right
Quote Left It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing. Quote Right
Quote Left Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. Quote Right
Quote Left Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this; I want the one rapture of an inspiration. O then if in my lagging lines you miss Quote Right
Quote Left TAKE CARE TO SELL YOUR HORSE BEFORE HE DIES THE ART OF LIFE IS PASSING LOSSES ON. Quote Right
Quote Left Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Quote Right
Quote Left In bestowing charity, the main consideration: should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all. Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. Those worthy of assistance, except in rare cases, seldom require assistance. The really valuable men of the race never do, except in case of accident or sudden change. Every one has, of course, cases of individuals brought to his own knowledge where temporary assistance can do genuine good, and these he will not overlook. But the amount which can be wisely given by the individual for individuals is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances connected with each. He is the only true reformer who is as care ful and as anxious not to aid the unworthy as he is to aid the worthy, and, perhaps, even more so, for in almsgiving more injury is probably done by rewarding vice than by relieving virtue. The rich man is thus almost restricted to following the examples of...others, who know that the best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise: free libraries, parks, and means of recreation, by which men are helped in body and mind; works of art, certain to give pleasure and improve the public taste; and public institutions of various kinds, which will improve the general condition of the people; in this manner returning their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Quote Right
Quote Left The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak. I say that this concrete language, intended for the senses and independent of speech, has first to satisfy the senses, that there is a poetry of the senses as there is a poetry of language, and that this concrete physical language to which I refer is truly theatrical only to the degree that the thoughts it expresses are beyond the reach of the spoken language. These thoughts are what words cannot express and which, far more than words, would find their ideal expression in the concrete physical language of the stage. It consists of everything that occupies the stage, everything that can be manifested and expressed materially on a stage and that is addressed first of all to the senses instead of being addressed primarily to the mind as is the language of words...creating beneath language a subterranean current of impressions, correspondences, and analogies. This poetry of language, poetry in space will be resolved precisely in the domain which does not belong strictly to words...Means of expression utilizable on the stage, such as music, dance, plastic art, pantomime, mimicry, gesticulation, intonation, architecture, lighting, and scenery...The physical possibilities of the stage offers, in order to substitute, for fixed forms of art, living and intimidating forms by which the sense of old ceremonial magic can find a new reality in the theater; to the degree that they yield to what might be called the physical temptation of the stage. Each of these means has its own intrinsic poetry. Quote Right
Quote Left What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. Quote Right
Quote Left My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. Quote Right
Quote Left Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow. Quote Right
Quote Left Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Quote Right
Quote Left Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere. Quote Right
Quote Left So if I asked you about art you could give me the skinny on every art book ever written...Michelangelo? You know a lot about him I bet. Life's work, criticisms, political aspirations. But you couldn't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. And if I asked you about women I'm sure you could give me a syllabus of your personal favorites, and maybe you've been laid a few times too. But you couldn't tell me how it feels to wake up next to a woman and be truly happy. If I asked you about war you could refer me to a bevy of fictional and non-fictional material, but you've never been in one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and watched him draw his last breath, looking to you for help. And if I asked you about love I'd get a sonnet, but you've never looked at a woman and been truly vulnerable. Known that someone could kill you with a look. That someone could rescue you from grief. That God had put an angel on Earth just for you. And you wouldn't know how it felt to be her angel. To have the love be there for her forever. Through anything, through cancer. You wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand and not leaving because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term 'visiting hours' didn't apply to you. And you wouldn't know about real loss, because that only occurs when you lose something you love more than yourself, and you've never dared to love anything that much. I look at you and I don't see an intelligent confident man, I don't see a peer, and I don't see my equal. I see a boy. Nobody could possibly understand you, right Will? Yet you presume to know so much about me because of a painting you saw. You must know everything about me. You're an orphan, right? Do you think I would presume to know the first thing about who you are because I read 'Oliver Twist?' And I don't buy the argument that you don't want to be here, because I think you like all the attention you're getting. Personally, I don't care. There's nothing you can tell me that I can't read somewhere else. Unless we talk about your life. But you won't do that. Maybe you're afraid of what you might say. Quote Right
Quote Left Art is anything you can get away with. Quote Right
Quote Left Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art Quote Right
Quote Left Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. Quote Right
Quote Left They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. Quote Right
Quote Left Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Quote Right
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Quote Left "Medicine is not just science—it’s the art of listening with your hands and healing with your heart." Quote Right
Quote Left "The mind can time travel, but the heart always beats in the present." Quote Right
Quote Left Where does evil lie? If not the heart then some inscrutable place that bears silent witness to everything we aren't but wish to be. Quote Right
Quote Left BOOKS ARE MY DIVINE COUNTERPART, THEY CAME TO ENGLIGHTEN ME. Quote Right
Quote Left A hallmark of any organization whether it be family, a corporation or even a nation is that a preponderance of rules in general denotes a lack of principle in particular. Conversely and unfortunately those lacking in principle have little use for rules. Quote Right
Quote Left I espouse no particular care for nature scenes with manmade structures, though I must admit some small indulgence in nostalgia at the thought that someone, with nature, shared this time and space and perhaps each became a part of the other Quote Right
Quote Left No technology survives the demise of it's constituent parts Quote Right
Quote Left Technology doesn't make us any stronger, faster, or smarter, it only affords us the opportunity to screw up in ever more spectacular and less obscure ways. Quote Right
Quote Left The idea of non-violence, like the idea of violence is based on Duality. The idea of Peace is based on Oneness. Absolute Peace can only arise out of Presence in the Now. Ideas of Duality need to be dropped as obsolete, so ideas of Oneness can take root. Peace, Presence, Oneness : these are ideas of Heaven on Earth. It is possible.” ©GhairoDanielsQuotes Quote Right
Quote Left We know there is a divine realm because mathematics exists. And to those who would say mathematics is a human construction, I respond, you probably haven't done much math. Mathematics is consistently smarter than mathematicians, and its soul is deeper as well. Quote Right
Quote Left There is no back in Time as Einstein suggests -- Time is a part of us, in every cell and mental process recalled – Already, we are all we were, and all we will become – if anything, I seek knowledge of the eternal moment. Conscious oneness with God in His timeless infinite Universe…. The secret is, learning how to listen – “God speaks to us daily” – Quote Right
Quote Left Love everyday till it hurts. Shine like the stars above the earth. Smile for all the blessings we have. Pray every day for love, life, and earth. Quote Right
Quote Left Building wealth starts with understanding your worth. If you don't know your value, no market will ever recognize it. Quote Right
Quote Left "AI can Not write from the heart because they have None." Quote Right
Quote Left Whatabouts destroy bi-partisanship. Quote Right
Quote Left “A sonnet is timeless when the images it creates pierces your Heart, opening it up, when its words penetrate your mind without you having to memorise it & when you feel the Timeless Divine embracing your Soul when reading it.” ©GhairoDanielsQuotes Quote Right
Quote Left "Poetry is the language of a human poet’s heart, mind and soul writing away." Quote Right
Quote Left 1.Drink water from that well, the sight of which made the whole world go thirsty. 2. Love is an art, used and performed wisely and correctly by the smart. 3. The wise never gets angry and the kind does not say Sorry( As they do not need to say Sorry). Quote Right
Quote Left Loyal love weathers all storms, loyal love keeps hearts warm. Quote Right
Quote Left One of the few good things about getting older is that there are so many things not worth caring about that I don't care about anymore. A certain part of wisdom is indifference. Quote Right
Quote Left My view ahead beyond the horizon, shows a silent struggle, fought without pleasure or partnership... Alone, with only God to witness. Quote Right
Quote Left If only Tom's words had wings and could take flight in the emptiness of lone hearts. Those hearts would once sing again. There be songs, sing a-longs, harmony. And for every lovely word of his that passes the doors of the heart the foundation of the body is in a better place. Quote Right
Quote Left Your scars are a part of your story that you own. You can't erase them, but you can stop them dictating your actions and defining who you are. Cease letting them supply your identity. Quote Right
Quote Left "A true writer needs a heart to write with. AI does Not have a heart so they can Not write they just copy." Quote Right
Quote Left The human form is a vehicle...a housing -- yet a temple, through which The Divine can manifest his glorious kingdom on earth...when and if we act accordingly, direct our "Us" tenant spirits to behave righteous thus fully representative of Christ. A Light victory, over the sphere of lifeless darkness. Quote Right
Quote Left "A writer must use ink from their heart for their readers." Quote Right
Quote Left "A writer must use ink from their heart." Quote Right
Quote Left Ink from the heart is poetic art. Quote Right
Quote Left "with all the faith espoused, death yet indeed a quivering mystery for the loving heart. Quote Right
Quote Left “I was created to push buttons at the deepest levels, at genome level, where patterns are made. These patterns are to change during Earth’s necessary transition.” GhairoDanielsQuotes2025 Quote Right
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