Henry Purcell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.

  • As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

  • Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

  • Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

  • Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

  • Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

  • I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

  • Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.

  • Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

  • Peace is never more than one thought away.