Aristotle Quotes, Expression Quotes, Excellence Quotes

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Expression Quotes , Ideas Quotes

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

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One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

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Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

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I was drawn into acting due to the fact that I could express myself better. I could use my voice - my entire body - not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.

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In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

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Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

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'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Expression Quotes , Quiet Quotes

There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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