(52 quotes found)
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“[Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.”
“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty”
“All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream”
“I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”
