“It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage” ShouldHumansWellsReasonDealsAskingAppealsAestheticBondageHuman Bondage Book:Of Human Bondage Source: Of Human Bondage
“The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - "Think of your forefathers and of your posterity."” ThinkingHumansHeartCountryFeelingsBattleDrivenAppealsBritainFollowersHuman HeartPersuasionPosterityInvasionIrresistibleThink Of YouBarbariansForefathersExtremityPower Of Persuasion Author:John Quincy Adams
“What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.” HumansFeelingsActionInterestRaceIndependentAffectionPrimariesAppealsExcellentPermanentMost Powerful Book:On the Classical Tradition Source: On the Classical Tradition
“Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.” HumansOpinionHuman NatureTasteEndureDeeperAppealsPermanentTruth And Beauty Book:The Principles of Success in Literature Source: The Principles of Success in Literature