Quotes with grandeur

  • Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

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  • Ben Nicholson Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Matthew Arnold Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Blaise Pascal Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bruce Oldfield I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Albert Camus If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Georges Bataille Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Jacques BéNigne Bossuet Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
    Jacques BéNigne Bossuet
    French bishop and writer (1627 - 1704)
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  • Marcelene Cox Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Raymond Chandler Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Jean Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Charles de Gaulle The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Charles Sumner The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
    Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (16 June 1963)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Simone Weil There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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