Elaine Scarry Quotes

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

Elaine Scarry

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• Universities

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• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Important
  • Think
  • Relation

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Career
  • Success
  • Destroyed

• People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Nature
  • Destroyed

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Error
  • Recognition

• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • Music
  • Spiritual
  • Consciousness

• It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Perfect

• I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.

  

  David Douglas
  • Control
  • Relation
  • Cameras

• United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Truth
  • Liberty
  • Destroyed

• Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Young

• Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

  

  Aristotle
  • Word
  • Error
  • Wicked Man

• For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowing
  • Error
  • Universal

• The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Value
  • Person
  • Christianity

• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Truth
  • Error
  • Possession

• We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Today
  • Spiritual
  • Brother

• Speaking seriously, Russia does not want to aggravate relations with anyone. We don't want any tensions. We want a good, friendly partnership with everyone.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Relation
  • Friendly
  • Partnership

• Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Believe
  • Destroyed
  • Promises

• How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dance
  • Learn
  • Flyer

• We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Moments
  • Humans
  • Breathing

• To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Relation
  • Error
  • Destroyed