Karl Blossfeldt Quotes

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Karl Blossfeldt

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

  

  Xenophon
  • Pleasure
  • Most
  • Sauce

• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Pleasure
  • Create
  • Copy

• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Journey
  • Destiny
  • Source

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Pleasure
  • Guilty
  • Hot

• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Artist

• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Pleasure

• Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Wealth

• The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Source

• Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Pleasure

• I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Desire
  • Water
  • Pleasure

• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Wise
  • Pleasure

• We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Middle East
  • Syria
  • Russians

• People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.

  

  Michael Franks
  • People
  • Just
  • Answer

• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sports

• An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Actor
  • Praise

• The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

  

  Nick Dear
  • Know
  • Learn
  • Read

• Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

  

  Karl Blossfeldt
  • Pleasure
  • Source
  • Educate