“It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”
Albert Einstein
“If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons”
Samuel Johnson
“PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction --prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
William Blake
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; and to it therefore, to the condition of its perf”
Walter H. Pater
“To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely”
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
