"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Art Quotes #Height Quotes #Depth Quotes

“Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own ***** and destructive impulses ...”
“In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow.”
“Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.”

Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
“Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.”
“Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct.”
“The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.”
“The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people choose to talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them.”
“The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.”

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