Quotes with conquest

  • Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
  • The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

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  • Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • William Shakespeare Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Maria Montessori An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Gloria Steinem Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Thomas Jefferson If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Helen Rowland Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Algernon Sydney No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Napoleon Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • A. W. Tozer Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our ''accepting'' and ''willing'' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Plato Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Joseph Conrad The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.
    Describing a Mexican baroque church
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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