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“Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.”

Giving Humans Children Art Life Is Lying Names Building Our Children Beach Your Children Aesthetic Sophisticated Being Human Humanistic Sandcastles

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.”

Ifs Feels I Can Light Lying Dies Turns Names Simple Tvs Rivers Magazines Brands Someday Sensations Consumerism Garbage Eagles Turn-on Simple Living Overconsumption Brand Names

Author:Fred Small

“Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.”

Way Made Lying Turns Names Money Trade Stamps Pennies

Author:William Cowper

“He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies outside the narrow territory specially cultivated by himself, and gives the name of "dilettantism" to any curiosity for the general scheme of knowledge.”

Knows Men Giving Lying Order Names Known Virtue Judgment Curiosity Corners Active Territory Schemes Be A Man Specialists Investigators

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.”

People Lying Names Distance Deceiving Inspection People Lie

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?”

Knows Giving Facts Body Law Lying Names Deals Surface Combination Exception

Author:Honore de Balzac

“There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation. True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss”

“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.”

Men Political Lying Evil Politics Names Individual Grows Struggle Particular Ambition Soil Abundance Suspicion Disrespect Slander Poisonous Morbid Enmity Shameless Nettles Political Struggle

Author:Maxim Gorky

“You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Running Lying Names Waiting Sound Knowing Spring Shadow Ghost Forests Branches Flash Phantoms Snares Elude Elude You

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.”

Ifs Men Trying Lying Names Wish Greater Honest Honor Innocent Being Honest Deceiving Deities Stop Trying Swearing Dealings

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.”

Ifs Trying Long Has Beens Moments Remember Lying Names Gone Return Presses Familiar Instant Breasts Forgiven Strokes Betrayed

Author:Roger Zelazny

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”

Want Stills Soul Lying Names Water Lord Path Green Sake My Soul Righteousness Shepherds Pastures Still Waters Shadow Of Death Grieving Poems Funeral Card Green Pastures

Author:David

“If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she would have her courts of worship resound with eucharistic praises, she must open her eyes, and see humanity lying lame at the temple gates, and heal it in the miraculous name of Jesus.”

Ifs Eye Faces Lying Humanity Jesus Names Church Worship Praise Court Shining Heal Temples Gates Her Eyes Miraculous Lame Eucharistic Alone With God

Author:Frederic Dan Huntington

“We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.”

Made Two Body Lying Names Groups India Species Ancient Organisms Aboriginal Guilds Ancient India

Author:Bill Mollison

“The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.”

Years Kind Philosophy Wanted Lying Names Cutting Heavy Bowie Truism

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.”

Ifs Men Writing Book Lying Mother Father Names Brother Praying Opposites Lust Denied Brutal Savages I Pray Maidens If There Is A God

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.”

Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears; A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, Just as the sapience of an author's brain, Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain.”

World Lying Names Brain Dangerous Thousand Safe Taxes Ears Crowds Invention Satire Gathering Scandal Toss

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author

“Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.”

Men Humans Lying Names Emotion Seeing Masters Mercy Fortune Compelled Bondage Prey Infirmity

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics