Home / Quotes / Quote by Charles Buxton

Quote by Charles Buxton

“To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.”

Quote by Charles Buxton

Book:Notes of Thought

Work

Notes of Thought

This book is a compilation of thoughtful essays and insights, exploring a wide range of intellectual and existential themes. more

Author

Charles Buxton, born on November 18, 1823, was a prominent British writer. His works covered a wide range of subjects including history, philosophy, and society, leaving a profound impact on posterity. more

You May Also Like

“Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.”

People Looks Painting Orange

Author:Kenneth Clark

“I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.”

Thinking Facts Space Havens Moon Substitutes Adequate Clearing Slums

Author:Kenneth Clark

“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.”

Ifs Should Doe Art Feelings Moral Failing Shadow Abstract Erotic Spectators Abstract Art

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.”

People Littles Kids Quitting Our Society Role Models Pulling Underdog

Author:Reggie Jackson

“I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.”

People Care Sports Loses Don't Care China Strikes Billions

Author:Reggie Jackson

“Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.”

Mean Persons Religion Belief Evidence Intense Command Sufficient Reasonable

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.”

Ifs World Doe Purpose Suffering Given

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.”

Different Term Views Gone Development Reactions Philosophic Hegel One Sided

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.”

World Way Looks Jobs This World Scientist Injustice Unpredictable Theologian Indictment

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.”

Differences Monotheism Polytheism

Author:Walter Kaufmann