Alain de Botton Quotes, Art Quotes, Majority Quotes

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

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When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

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Tags : Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes , Art Quotes , Loss Quotes

The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Running Quotes , Art Quotes

After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Art Quotes , Book Quotes

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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The art of using troops is this: ......When ten to the enemy's one, surround him; ......When five times his strength, attack him; ......If double his strength, divide him; ......If equally matched you may engage him; ......If weaker numerically, be capable of withdrawing; ......And if in all respects unequal, be capable of eluding him, ..........for a small force is but booty for one more powerful.

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If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Art Is Quotes

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.

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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Art Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Art Quotes , Voice Quotes

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes