(180 quotes found)
“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
“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
“The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.”
Daniel P. Moynihan
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
Walter Benjamin
“It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.”
Clement Attlee
“I am in You,You are in Me,There is no distance or distinction.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.”
Washington Allston
“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”
Albert Einstein
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