Immanuel Kant Quotes
Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
Immanuel Kant
Quotes to Explore
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
Carl Honore
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
Adam Grant
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings
Alexander Lowen
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I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.
Andy Rooney
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
Quentin Crisp
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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
Albert Einstein
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Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.
Bent Sæther
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Oh shit, I thought, if this isn’t the Low King of the Dwarves then I’m the President of the Cricklewood Branch of the Women’s Institute.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
Victor Hugo
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These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.
Victor Hugo
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Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.
Charles Ludlam
