Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury famous quotes

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

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Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

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All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

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Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

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The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.