"The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself."

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Source : 'Du vrai, du beau, et du bien' (Sorbonne lecture, 1818).

Victor Cousin

#Beautiful Quotes #Way Quotes #Holy Quotes

“I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.”
“The problem is that many of our policymakers want to base sweeping laws on those feelings.”
“We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle.”
“Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.”

Source : "Got a problem? Just ask Grandma" by Huma Qureshi, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.
“People see me as cute, but I'm so much more than that.”
“The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.”
“A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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