Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• Extravagance
• Declared

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• Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Never Been

• There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Different
  • Player

• Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Purpose

• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Generations
  • Nonsense

• There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Done
  • Special

• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Passages
  • Impediments
  • Own Minds

• I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mountains
  • Carried
  • Sufferer

• Be who you are, and go the whole way.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Being

• More matter with less art.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Matter
  • Polonius

• Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Couches
  • Psychiatry
  • Teaching People

• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Dead
  • Hopes
  • Doom

• If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Energy
  • Life Is Short
  • Good Book

• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  

  TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
  • Pride
  • Drugs
  • Guns

• There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Life
  • Women
  • Experience

• Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Eye
  • Proportion
  • Destroys

• God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • God
  • Christ
  • Shows

• ... I slipped our wicker bed and walked the sands where we were also roughly repeated: some young couple, "you did," "I didn't," "you sure the fuck did" – they hugged that bicker to their chests like blankets fighting cold.

  

  Albert Goldbarth
  • Couple
  • Bicker

• A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Philosopher
  • Scholar

• To achieve their goal, masterpieces must charm but also penetrate the soul and make a deep impression on the mind that is similar to reality...Therefore the artist must have studied all the motives of mankind and he must know nature thoroughly. In short he must be a philosopher.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Artist
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Philosopher
  • Extravagance
  • Declared