Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Happy
  • Poetry

• Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

  

  G. H. Hardy

• The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Beginning

• 'Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• This first stage of the life of the whole race is savagery, raw nature:… a condition in which man enjoys the most exquisite goods, equality and freedom, in full abundance, and would also enjoy them forever, if he would follow the hint of nature and understand the art of not abusing his powers and preventing the outbreak of his excessive passions.

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• I was very, very naughty in school.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • School
  • Naughty

• I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Thug

• We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Children
  • Money

• My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Great

• Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

  

  Louis R. Chenevert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Strong

• No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • People

• 'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Communication
  • Intuition

• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

  

  Georg Baselitz
  • Father
  • Painting

• Civility is not simply about manners.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Manners
  • Civility

• 'A slave is one who must produce wealth for another,' the Brain said. 'There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time. Time. Are we slaves because we have given you more time to live?'

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Time
  • Live
  • Friends

• Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

  

  Joe Moore
  • Money
  • Death
  • Joy

• A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • World
  • Mind
  • Body

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Secret
  • Discovery
  • Philosophical

• The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt out for philosophical and so-called religious reasons. The laws need to make clear: no shot, no school.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • People
  • School
  • Reason

• A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Philosophical
  • Illumination
  • Sharpness