Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 2226.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
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The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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