“By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.” MenSoulBodySeparationVoidArtificialRealismIdealismVulgarSoul And Body Author:Oscar Wilde
“Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.” MenSoulFailingPerseveranceCowardToilVulgarShrinksPerilPersevereMettle Author:Dean Koontz
“The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.” FirstsSoulBraveNobleBeing TrueGentlemanVulgarScandalRebuke Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.” LoveFirstsSoulTogetherPassionLove IsCommonKindnessGenerationsProduceSpeciesAriseEsteemMediumsAppetiteVulgarGrossRefined Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections
“To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.” IfsMenGivingSoulAsksEnjoyNumbersGrowingPlanetsProveSlaveKillingBoundsNobleAppealsDefeatedRejectedPrivilegedVulgarDestinedBetrayedOur PlanetAllegianceFree ManPretentiousNoisyContainingIsmsPosing Author:Savitri Devi
“Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.” LoveLooksSoulSeaLifetimeDelightDiscoveringPrivilegedVulgarAdmiringMonotony Author:Honore de Balzac