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Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we feel as when we are in an ancient armoury where the weapons are of gigantic size; and as we look at them we marvel what manner of man he was who could use as a weapon what we can scarcely lift as a burden. By William Whewell Newton Principia Purposes Size Burden

The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias, since it was not possible that any other artist, of any epoch, could have copied nature with such faultless accuracy. The figure was that of a man without a skin; with every vein, artery, muscle, every fibre and tendon and tissue of the human frame, represented in detail. It looked natural, because somehow it looked as if it were in pain. A skinned man would be likely to look that way, unless his attention were occupied with some other matter. It was a hideous thing, and yet there was a fascination about it some where. I am sorry I saw it, because I shall always see it, now. I shall dream of it, sometimes. I shall dream that it is resting its corded arms on the bed's head and looking down on me with its dead eyes; I shall dream that it is stretched between the sheets with me and touching me with its exposed muscles and its stringy cold legs. By Mark Twain Phidias Dream Artist Epoch Accuracy

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Rome Wrought Peter Christian God

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men. By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Earth Artists Men Formations

So that human beings were miraculous indeed - conscious creators, walking this new world like fresh young gods, wielding immense alchemical powers. So that anyone Michel met on Mars he regarded curiously, wondering as he looked at their often innocuous exteriors what kind of new Paracelsus or Isaac of Holland stood before him, and whether they would turn lead to gold, or cause rocks to blossom. By Kim Stanley Robinson Conscious Creators Walking Gods Wielding

New York loves expanse. It grows upward and spreads its tentacles outward, the island spilling into adjoining lands through its many bridges and tunnels. A person given to idleness, as Parvis has come to think of himself, must move about for the sake of moving, if only to fit into the general scheme of things - an electron obeying the current. Tantamount to movement, he has come to realize, is self-reliance, a fact reflected in the language: "Take care," a friend may say to another as the two part. In his old life the same two friends would have said to one another, khodahfez - "may God protect you. By Dalia Sofer York Expanse Loves Parvis Outward

The evening being come, I return home and go to my study; at the entrance I pull off my peasant-clothes, covered with dust and dirt, and put on my noble court dress, and thus becomingly re-clothed I pass into the ancient courts of the men of old, where, being lovingly received by them, I am fed with that food which is mine alone; where I do not hesitate to speak with them, and to ask for the reason of their actions, and they in their benignity answer me; and for four hours I feel no weariness, I forget every trouble, poverty does not dismay, death does not terrify me; I am possessed entirely by those great men. By Niccolo Machiavelli Men Study Peasantclothes Covered Dirt

The day may come when, contemplating a world given back to the primeval forst, a human survivor will have no means of even guessing how much intelligence Man once imposed upon the forms of the earth, when he set up the stones of Florence in the billowing expanse of the Tuscan olive-groves. No trace will be left then of the palaces that saw Michelangelo pass by, nursing his grievances against Raphael; and nothing of the little Paris cafes where Renoir once sat beside Cezanne, Van Gogh beside Gauguin. Solitude, vicegerent of Eternity, vanquishes men's dreams no less than armies, and men have known this ever since they came into being and realized that they must die. By Andre Malraux Man Florence Tuscan Contemplating Forst

The first ten books Mr. Segundus looked at were worthless - books of sermons and moralizing from the last century, or descriptions of persons whom no one living cared about. The next fifty were very much the same. He began to think his task would soon be done. But then he stumbled upon some very interesting and unusual works of geology, philosophy and medicine. He began to feel more sanguine. By Susanna Clarke Segundus Books Worthless Century Ten

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. By William Shakespeare Man Reason Faculties Admirable Angel

14. Finally, the last characteristic of the menippea: its concern with current and topical issues. This is, in its own way, the "journalistic" genre of antiquity, acutely echoing the ideological issues of the day. By Mikhail Bakhtin Issues Finally Menippea Journalistic Characteristic

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. By Aristotle. Euripides Sophocles Drew Men

We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures. By Edward Gibbon Characters Present Stand Reflections Comfort

A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well on the nature of man; will profoundly analyse the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man ... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures. By Lord Chesterfield Reason Cambridge Man Oxford Parson

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Newton Laplace Anaximenes Hipparchus Empodocles

We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory. By Walter Bagehot Admire Teneriffe Euclid Newton Ice

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics, and the charm of humble awe, which is engendered by meditation on the human soul and its experiences. Philosophy is characterized by the gentle, if firm, refusal to succumb to either charm. By Leo Strauss Engendered Charm Mathematics Men Awe

We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life. By Philip Ball Paracelsus Basle Precipice Watch Man

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. By Marcus Sakey Shaped Action Block Marble Statue

I had begun to grasp, in the past few weeks, one of the great and uncovenanted delights of Greece; a pre-coming of age present in my case: a direct and immediate link, friendly and equal on either side, between human beings, something which melts barriers of hierarchy and background and money and, except for a few tribal and historic feuds, politics and nationality as well... Existence, these glances say, is a torment, an enemy, an adventure and a joke which we are in league to undergo, outwit, exploit and enjoy on equal terms as accomplices, fellow-hedonists and fellow-victims. By Patrick Leigh Fermor Greece Equal Grasp Weeks Case

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short. By Charles Caleb Colton Alas Man Distrust High Creature

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te. By Henry David Thoreau Juno Apollo Venus Minerva Apotheosized

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. By Edmund Waller Greek Latin Poets Lasting Marble

I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer, "Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM. By Philip K. Dick Richard Wagner Heaven Standing Gates

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence. By William Hazlitt Men Encomiums Greatest Genius Prodigal

Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus , Montaigne , Seneca 's Tragedies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian, Pliny , Plutarch 's lives , and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done. By Theresa Villiers Sir Montaigne Seneca Horace Juvenal

Mr. Ethan W. Barris is an engineer and architect of somerenown, and the second of the guest to arrive. He looks as though he has wandered into the wrong building and would be more at home in an office or a bank with his timid manner and silver spectacles, his hair carefully combed to diguise the fact that it is beginning to thin. He met Chandresh only once before, at a symposium on ancient Greek architect. The dinner invitation came as a surprise; Mr. Barris is not the type of man who receives invitations to unsual late-night social functions, or usual social functions for that matter, but he deemed it too impolite to decline. By Erin Morgenstern Ethan Barris Somerenown Arrive Engineer

There are a sort of men, whose visagesDo cream and mantle, like a standing pond;And do a willful stillness entertain,With purpose to be dressed in an opinionOf wisdom, gravity profound conceit;As who should say, I am sir Oracle,And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! By William Shakespeare Men Mantle Pond Wisdom Gravity

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace. By Edward Weston Toilet Beauty Photographing Glossy Enameled

I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess (Bendis, the Thracian Artemis.); and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing. I was delighted with the procession of the inhabitants; but that of the Thracians was equally, if not more, beautiful. When we had finished our prayers and viewed the spectacle, we turned in the direction of the city; and at that instant Polemarchus the son of Cephalus chanced to catch sight of us from a distance as we were starting on our way home, and told his servant to run and bid us wait for him. The servant took hold of me by the cloak behind, and said: Polemarchus desires you to wait. By Plato Bendis Ariston Artemis Piraeus Glaucon

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Expression Thought Faces Fluid Flushed

From this day forth I placedressmakers above philosophers. Those people bring beautyinto life, and that's worth a hundred times the most unfathomable meditations. By Erich Maria Remarque Philosophers Day Placedressmakers Life Meditations

Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived as noble and godlike. By Mary Shelley Man Powerful Virtuous Magnificent Base

Good-bye to the lies of the poets.[Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.] By Ovid Lat Valeant Goodbye Poets Vatum

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. By Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry Happy Thing Royal Road

I was thinking", he answered absently, "about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life. By Willa Cather Euripides Thinking Absently Man Sea

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. By Aeschylus Bronze Form Wine Mind Mirror

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science. By Samuel Johnson Men Neglected Mentioned Age Science

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons. By Albert Camus Functional Truths Face Man Beauty

Dantes had entered the Chateau d'If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past. This was now all changed. The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and markedlines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself. By Alexandre Dumas Chateau Open Dantes Round Past

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class bythemselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not forordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit. By Eric Temple Bell Newton Archimedes Gauss Mathematicians Merit

>He was greedy and rude and bitter, but he was still a healer. The parson, though, what was he? He was nothing. Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters. By Patrick Ness Belief Bitter Healer Greedy Rude

Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubtan uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept over him. Yes, he should have become acquainted with the classics. Long ago. Now, alas, it was too late ... By Agatha Christie Poirot Watching Felt Twinge Suddenly

Metaraon, with his unmerciful stare, By S.m. Reine Metaraon Stare Unmerciful

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart forever; the vulture the very creature he creates. By Herman Melville Thee Prometheus Creature Vulture God

lagophthalmos - a By John Connolly Lagophthalmos

I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Epaminondas Phocion Make Conqueror Heroism

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages. By Lord Byron Locke Socrates Pythagoras Sages Lifetime

The true work of artis but a shadow of the divine perfection By Michelangelo Buonarroti Perfection True Work Artis Shadow

By now you may have concluded that the conversation was neitherabout Descartes nor about philosophy, although it certainly wasabout mind, brain, and body. My friend suggested it should takeplace under the Sign of Descartes, since there was no way of approachingsuch themes without evoking the emblematic figure whoshaped the most commonly held account of their relationship. Atthis point I realized that, in a curious way, the book would be aboutDescartes' Error. You will, of course, want to know what the Errorwas, but for the moment I am sworn to secrecy. I promise, though,that it will be revealed. By Antonio R. Damasio Descartes Brain Philosophy Mind Body

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. By Walt Whitman Man Mankind Great Poet Equable

It is almost impossible to understand the extent to which upheaval agitated, and by that very fact had temporarily enriched, the mind of M. de Charlus. Love in this way produces real geological upheavals of thought. In the mind of M. de Charlus, which only several days before resembled a plane so flat that even from a good vantage point one could not have discerned an idea sticking up above the ground, a mountain range had abruptly thrust itself into view, hard as rockbut mountains sculpted as if an artist, instead of taking the marble away, had worked it on the spot, and where there twisted about one another, in giant and swollen groupings, Rage, Jealousy, Curiosity, Envy, Suffering, Pride, Astonishment, and Love. By Marcel Proust Charlus Mind Agitated Enriched Love

Mens videt astra.(The soul sees the stars.) By Merrie Haskell Mens Astra Stars Videt Soul

Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus. By Luke Rhinehart Man Men Comfortable Flowing Role

Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected popularity and ingratiated himself with the multitude, stirred up and exasperated the most eminent men of the city, who had long borne a secret grudge to Theseus, conceiving that he had robbed them of their several little kingdoms and lordships, and, having pent them all up in one city, was using them as his subjects and slaves. He put also the meaner people into commotion, telling them, that, deluded with a mere dream of liberty, though indeed they were deprived both of that and of their proper homes and religious usages, instead of many good and gracious kings of their own, they had given themselves up to be lorded over by a new-comer and a stranger. By Plutarch City Peteus Orneus Erechtheus Theseus

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron) By Sherrilyn Kenyon Acheron Fools Mortals

Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed with thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage - and, foolish as I am, taught thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope. By Herman Melville Greece Thee Metempsychosis Pythagoras Peruvian

He was an extravagantly obese man of sixty-four. A great apron of stomach fell so far down in front of his thighs that most people thought instantly of his penis when they first clapped eyes on him, wondering when he had last seen it, how he washed it, how he managed to perform any of the acts for which a penis is designed. By J.k. Rowling Sixtyfour Extravagantly Obese Man Penis

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. By Jean De La Bruyere Young Antithesis People Dazzled Brilliancy

Food of Acheron. (Grave.)[Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.] By Plautus Acheron Grave Lat Food Pabulum

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. By Lucretius Epicurus Humankind Extinguished Sun Genius

my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia! By Edward Bulwer-Lytton Clodius Pericles Aspasia True Countrymen

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,and perhaps, his country, his language. By Edward Everett Limited Character Founded Fact Phenomenon

As one broods over these queer collections, it seems easier to understand - with an understanding which isnot, I hope, distorted in the other direction - this strange spirit, who was tempted by the Devil to believe atthe time when within these walls he. was solving so much, that he could reach all the secrets of God andNature by the pure power of mind Copernicus and Faustus in one. By John Maynard Keynes Devil God Copernicus Faustus Collections

We cannot know his legendary headwith eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torsois still suffused with brilliance from inside,like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,gleams in all its power. Otherwisethe curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor coulda smile run through the placid hips and thighsto that dark center where procreation flared.Otherwise this stone would seem defacedbeneath the translucent cascade of the shouldersand would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:would not, from all the borders of itself,burst like a star: for here there is no placethat does not see you. You must change your life. By Rainer Maria Rilke Fruit Legendary Headwith Eyes Ripening

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be. By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Men Grotesque Ridiculous Respect Artists

In Eumenides, Apollo, chosen to represent Orestes in his murder trial, mounts a strikingly original argument: he reasons that Orestes's mother is no more than a stranger to him. A pregnant woman is just a glorified human incubator, Apollo argues, an intravenous bag dripping nutrients through the umbilical cord into her child. By Siddhartha Mukherjee Orestes Apollo Eumenides Chosen Trial

A mere wilderness, as you see, even now in December; but in summer a complete nursery of briers, a forest of thistles, a plantation of nettles, without any live stock but goats, that have eaten up all the bark of the trees. Here you see is the pedestal of a statue, with only half a leg and four toes remaining: there were many here once. When I was a boy, I used to sit every day on the shoulders of Hercules: what became of him I have never been able to ascertain. Neptune has been lying these seven years in the dust-hole; Atlas had his head knocked off to fit him for propping a shed; and only the day before yesterday we fished Bacchus out of the horse-pond. By Thomas Love Peacock December Wilderness Briers Thistles Nettles

There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David. By John Ruskin Frame Flesh Heaven Vessel Part

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark. By William Cowper Philologists Gaul Greece Ark Start

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato. By Seneca The Younger Eloquence Justice Extraction Parents Socrates

Mandelstam was, one is tempted to say, a modern Orpheus: sent to hell, he never returned, while his widow dodged across one-sixth of the earth's surface, clutching the saucepan with his songs rolled up inside, memorizing them by night in the event they were found by Furies with a search warrant. These are our metamorphoses, our myths. By Joseph Brodsky Orpheus Furies Mandelstam Hell Returned

So struggled beneath its anguish this unhappy soul. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom are aggregated all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity, He also, while the olive trees were shivering in the fierce breathe of the Infinite, had long put away from his hand the fearful chalice that appeared before him, dripping with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. By Victor Hugo Soul Struggled Beneath Anguish Unhappy

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. By Euripides Resistless Mighty Geometry Joined Art

For we find even the excellent Descartes, who gave the first impulse to subjective reflection and thereby became the father of modern philosophy, still entangled in confusions for which it is difficult to account ; and we shall soon see to what serious and deplorable consequences these confusions have led with regard to Metaphysics. By Arthur Schopenhauer Descartes Metaphysics Confusions Philosophy Account

Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men. By Edith Hamilton Euripides Questioned Men Misanthrope Preferred

Horse[Man you will find herea new representation of the universeat its most poetic and most modernMan man man man man manGive yourself up to this art where the sublimedoes not exclude charmand brilliancy does not blur the nuanceit is now or never the momentto be sensitive to poetry for it dominatesall dreadfullyGuillaume Apollinaire] By Guillaume Apollinaire Man Apollinaire Horse Find Herea

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.[Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tenditNon sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.] By Ovid Lat God Nihil Est Supraque

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. By Jose Marti Extent Expressions Reflections Men Products

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary. By Herman Melville Saturn Seat Grandeur Woe Thyself

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Plato Schools Aristotle Reckoned Respective

The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease. By Lord Chesterfield Heaven Speaker Phenomenon Park Cry

Who gives to Aristaeus honey;Or wine to Bacchus, or TriptolemusEarth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous? By Ovid Bacchus Alcinous Aristaeus Honey Fruits

Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder. By Marilynne Robinson Earthly Parsimonious Prodigal Exceptional Utterly

The primeval man in offering the first garland to his maiden thereby transcended the brute. He became human in thus rising above the crude necessities of nature. He entered the realm of art when he perceived the subtle use of the useless. By Okakura Kakuzo Brute Primeval Man Offering Garland

You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore calmly, "because Lord Voldemort - who is the last remaining descendant of Salazar Slytherin - can speak Parseltongue. Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure. . . ." "Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said, thunderstruck. "It certainly seems so. By J.k. Rowling Parseltongue Slytherin Speak Dumbledore Lord

This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind. By Paul Valery Phaedrus Dear Point Word Important

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... By Farkas Bolyai Gauss Giant Abysses Mathematical Lofty

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience. By Rebecca Goldstein Aporia Impasse Unable Led Proceed

I returned to the waiting area. For the first time, I was conscious of being widowed, of lacking the prosecution of a man, it was an entirely atavistic sensation. Here in the lobby of this police station in Greece, I suddenly felt extraneous to the workings of the world, which is to say the world of men, I had grown invisible, standing at the threshold of that door. By Katie Kitamura Area Returned Waiting World Greece

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, ... he turned to his friend and said, Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other? By Plutarch Phocion People Delivered Opinion Pleased

The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess. By Lord Acton Greeks Greek Pericles Christianity Authorities

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.) By Madeleine L'engle Portuguese Ouvidos Paredes Tem Ears

Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,Arouse! Arousefor you must justify meyou must answer.I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you, and then averts his face,Leaving it to you to prove and define it,Expecting the main things from you. By Walt Whitman Poets Comepoets Justify Orators Singers

Richard occasionally spoke wistfully about the works of art he'd seen at the People's Palace, in D'Hara, where he had been held captive. Growing up in Hartland, he had never before seen statues carved in marble, and certainly none carved on such a grand scale, or by such talented hands. Those works had in some ways opened his eyes to the greater world around him and had made a lasting impression on him. Who else but Richard would remember fondly the beauty he saw while held captive and being tortured? By Terry Goodkind Palace People Dhara Richard Occasionally

What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpassed and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world. And yet this full stature of greatness came to pass at a time when the mighty civilizations of the ancient world had perished and the shadow of "effortless barbarism" was dark upon the earth. In that black and fierce world a little centre of white-hot spiritual energy was at work. A new civilization had arisen in Athens, unlike all that had gone before. By Edith Hamilton Art Thought Western World Equalled

But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now By Bertrand Russell Possess Truth Merit Metaphysic Plotinus

A noble pair of brothers.[Lat., Par nobile fratum.] By Horace Lat Par Brothers Fratum Noble

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity. By Friedrich Schiller Greeks Nay Simplicity Age Rivals

Sculpture does not reject resemblance, of which, indeed, it has need. But resemblance is not its first aim.What it is looking for, in its periods of greatness, is the gesture, the expression, or the empty stare whichwill sum up all the gestures and all the stares in the world. Its purpose is not to imitate, but to stylize andto imprison in one significant expression the fleeting ecstasy of the body or the infinite variety of humanattitudes. Then, and only then, does it erect, on the pediments of teeming cities, the model, the type, themotionless perfection that will cool, for one moment, the fevered brow of man. The frustrated lover oflove can finally gaze at the Greek caryatides and grasp what it is that triumphs, in the body and face of thewoman, over every degradation By Albert Camus Resemblance Sculpture Reject Expression Body