“The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 151 of 313
“I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.”
“Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.”
“This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.”
“These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.”
“Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.”
“I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.”
“Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.”
“Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.”
“The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.”
“The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.”
“It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.”
“I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.”
“Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.”
“To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.”
“Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.”
“Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.”
“My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.”
“To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.”
“One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.”