“Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.”
Source: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.”
Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
“Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.”
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
“It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.”
“With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.”
Source: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
“Art is science in the flesh.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“Art is far feebler than necessity.”
Source: Prometheus Bound
“Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.”
“In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.”
Source: Poems: Third Series
“To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.”
Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.”
Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
“We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.”
Source: Bleak House
“I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.”
Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes
“Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.”
“Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.”
Source: Essays and Soliloquies
“The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Source: De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.”
Source: Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts
“We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.”
Source: WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)
Source: All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen
“We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?”
“We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.”
Source: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Source: Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht
Source: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
Source: The Turtle Diary
Source: The Turtle Diary
“I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.”
Source: Death of a Salesman