John Ruskin Quotes
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse -
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton -
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Albert Einstein -
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
Oswald Chambers -
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
A. E. Hotchner
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I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
Leonard Susskind -
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
Anna Hutchison -
I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'
Hafez -
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
Douglas Jerrold -
The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.
Jacques Roumain -
It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.
Jolene Blalock
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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
Ernest Hemingway -
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
Immanuel Kant -
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill -
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
John Stuart Mill -
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
Albert Einstein -
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a kingdom of conscience, or nothing.
Balian of Ibelin -
It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?
William P. Young -
I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
Ed Westwick -
I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.
John Ruskin