Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Simone Weil

Quotes November 23, 2008

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Arts and Artists
Quotations by Simone Weil

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?WinterQuotations by Percy Bysshe Shelley

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.AwarenessQuotations by Walter Benjamin

In this theater of man’s life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.LeisureQuotations by …

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?LoveQuotations by Christopher Marlowe

Many lick before they bite.FlatteryQuotations by Proverb

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.Modern and ModernismQuotations …

Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.ProcrastinationQuotations by Charles Richter

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.WarQuotations by Henry David Thoreau

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.PurposeQuotations …

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.MotivesQuotations by Lord …