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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• 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

• 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

• The past is getting clearer and clearer

  

  Bulat Okudzhava
  • Past
  • Clearer

• Alix MacKenzie was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to Joan Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Space
  • Form
  • Painter

• The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Canvas

• Find something you enjoy and love and you're passionate about. And then dedicate all you've got to make it a success. And if you have those two things, I think with your passion and dedication, there is nothing that you cannot accomplish.

  

  Anousheh Ansari
  • Success
  • Passion
  • Enjoy

• 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