J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.J. R. R. Tolkien
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
E. M. Forster -
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde -
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller -
Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
Oscar Isaac -
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
Oscar Wilde
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Ada Cambridge -
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
Leonard Baskin -
Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
Benjamin Cardozo -
Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.
Chuck Klosterman -
We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.
Chogyam Trungpa
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
Bill Vaughan -
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
Tacitus -
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
Hippocrates -
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle -
The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
Xunzi
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People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.
Sarah Jessica Parker -
We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.
Stephen Carter -
The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.
Pythagoras -
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless.
J. R. R. Tolkien