W Quotes
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“Without art there is no hope.”
“Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.”
“Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.”
“Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.”
“Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.”
“Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?”
“Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.”
“Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.”
“Without arts, culture, and creativity, society would lack the warmth and compassion that define our humanity.”
“Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.”
“Without as much as a single question, legions of geese lift themselves to autumn’s skies, obediently heeding the distant call of southern horizons. And I think that it’s less the magnificence of their trek, and more about the humility of their obedience to the trek. For if I was left with a single prayer to utter, it would be to be more like them.”
“Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.”
“Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.”
Source: Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It
“Without assessment, acceleration will be a mirage.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.”
Source: Cosette
“Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.”
“Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.”
“Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.”
“Without awakening (satori) there is no Zen.”
Source: Zen: The Authentic Gate
“Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our Self, by our own sense of who we are”
“Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.”
“Without awareness, we are not truly alive.”
“Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.”
“Without balance, equilibrium and knowledge of self people will always get drawn to low frequency energy, topics and themes, getting dumbed down, losing their soul bit by bit without even realising it, which means they’ll eventually hit a wall of unfulfillment, which can only be solved by looking within, not without.”
“Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.”
Source: The Tourist
“Without basic human values guiding us, we become morally bankrupt. Without love as our purpose, we become empty. Without understanding of both of these, we become lost.”
“Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.”
Source: The Elementary Particles
“Without been a warrior, how can the victory be won in this life?”
“Without being an elephant sycophant, it is relevant to note that an infant elephant is a lieutenant giant.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!”
“Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.”
Source: Between Man and Man
“Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.”
“Without being conscious of it, she looks for a situation in which she can give up her façade of self-sufficiency and ease back into that warm, cradled state reminiscent of childhood that's so seductive to a woman - a home.”
“Without being converted, there is no change.”
“Without being fully aware of what I was doing, I flipped the lights on in my kitchen and began to measure out chicken stock and arborio rice.
The butternut squash in my pantry found itself quartered and set to roast in the oven. I plucked a few leaves of sage from my kitchen herb garden and minced them fine. Butter, shallots, rice, and herbs. Roasted squash and parmesan. The risotto took shape, its savory scent filling my apartment.”
Source: A Table by the Window
“Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.”
“Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.”
“Without being legalistic, we should be careful and wise in all decisions we make.”
“Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.”
Source: Being Peace
“Without being push to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.”
Source: On Eagles Wings:Rise
“without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses”
“Without Belief, there is No Magic. - Kailin Gow”
“Without benefit of maturity or therapy, I had no way of knowing that the darkness was as much inside me as it was outside me, or that I had any power to affect its hold on me.”
Source: Learning to Walk in the Dark
“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.”
“Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.”
“Without big words, how could many people say small things?”
“Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.”
Source: The Romance of the Commonplace