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“The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.”

Knows Whole Would Be Able Passion Evil Existence Equal Ultimate Unity Paint Obvious Ugly Justify Items Harmonious Rapture Disdain Tokens Gallant Ultimate Truth

Author:Aleister Crowley

“I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log.”

Knows Love Sometimes Feelings Dream Found Left Love Is Imagine Security Cold Ought Window Companionship Brutes Disdain

Book:A Season in Hell

Source: A Season in Hell

“I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.”

“A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who regards with utter disdain all who think to subdue human nature with mere words and arguments.”

Thinking Humans Soul Can Do Laughing Human Nature Devil Argument Regard Mere Casts Invisible Winner Disdain Without God

Book:The Soul Winner

Source: The Soul Winner

“The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.”

“All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.”

Humans Wells Past Life Is Passion Individual Growing Honor Findings Human Life Motive Urges Scorn Annoyed Opposing Disdain Untruth

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.”

Chains Preserves Disdain Industrious Your Freedom Frugal

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive.”

Thinking Should Has Beens Self Government Democrat Suspects Deceiving Replaced Notable Disdain Elitist Truman Trough

Author:Jack Kelly

“Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.”

Whole Boring Treated Engineering Irrelevant Disdain

Author:James Dyson

“Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole.”

“To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image and emotions were not shared by the apostolic church.”

Self Christian Church Emotion Students Contemporary Emphasis Theologian Theological Disdain Apostolic Apostolic Church

Author:R. C. Sproul

“I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable.”

Kids Young Used Found Fun Mad Bored Having Fun Going Out Fashionable Disdain Hipster Bloggers Getting Laid

Author:Gavin McInnes

“It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.”

Feels Sometimes Hard Seems Fun Levels Pleasant Hard Times Disdain Attracted To Someone

Author:Eric Stoltz

“A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

“A root is a flower that disdains fame.”

Inspirational Flower Fame Roots Disdain

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don’t apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.”

Ifs Important Self Sometimes Use Watches Wonderful Sacrifice Dying Medicine Patient Esteem Martyr Healed Disdain

Book:Hope for Every Moment: 365 Inspirational Thoughts for Every Day of the Year

Source: Hope for Every Moment: 365 Inspirational Thoughts for Every Day of the Year

“I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.”

Effort Despise Patriot Disdain

Author:Robert Walpole

“Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people”

Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

“I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.”

Hate Stars Fascination Disdain Moths Aloof

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

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