Hamilton Wright Mabie Quotes
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
Lactantius
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
Larry Norman
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
Gary Krist
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Irving Langmuir
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
F. Sionil Jose
Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
Ian Mckellen
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Walter Raleigh
I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.
Nathaniel Rateliff
This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of violence in any other place other than America.
Irwin Winkler
'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
Samuel Johnson
The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.
Otto Rank
Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.
Vernon Howard
The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.
Ben Jonson
They say that the truth will set you freeBut then again, so will a lie...It depends if you're trying to get to the promised landOr if you're just trying to get by.
Ani DiFranco
To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
Antonio Gramsci
I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
Ed Oxenbould
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
Antonin Artaud
I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
John Malkovich
I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.
William Kunstler
The role of the artist.. ..and the poet is precisely to blur normal categories, to disrupt them, and by doing so restore to the eyes and the mind ingenuity and freshness.
Jean Dubuffet
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
