Benedetto Croce Quotes

Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.

Benedetto Croce

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Thoughts
  • Language

• Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Different
  • Book
  • Movie

• I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Believe
  • Intelligent
  • Fans

• Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Man
  • Wish

• I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• It's nice not to have to live a double life.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nice

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Art
  • Science
  • Wonder

• I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Him
  • Agree
  • Few

• I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fan

• My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • Good
  • Road

• I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Model

• I think of the French polymath Boris Vian (1920-1959) who burned the candles of his creative genius at every end he could light. And I think of the way Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) hammered with

  

  Aberjhani
  • Light
  • Author

• -music's powerIs little felt in sunlit hour;But hear its voice when hopes depart,Like swallows, flying from the heartOn which the summer's late declineHas set a sadness and a sign;. . . . . .How deeply will the spirit feelThe lute, the song's sweet-voiced appeal;And how the heart drink in their sighsAs echoes they from Paradise.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Song

• The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Country
  • Business
  • Army

• I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Life
  • God
  • Why

• You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Believe
  • Poetry
  • Miracle

• Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Need
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.

  

  Benedetto Croce
  • Poetry
  • Activity
  • Human Mind