“The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.” SoulSchoolDifferencesWitGenuinePoetry IsPope Author:Matthew Arnold
“We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.” IfsFeelsDifferencesMoralPlansSpecialDesignLaysGenuineImmortalMoral Life Author:William James
“Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.” MindDifferencesViewsMajorsConceptsGenuineDialogueConfrontationSettlement Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.” KindFactsHandsPoliticalSocialDifferencesRightsEqualPossessionGenuineEnormousVulnerabilityRelativeHand In HandSocial Equality Author:Zygmunt Bauman