Related Quotes
All quotes about:
philosophical heart men
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way. Charles Dickens
philosophical ideas welcome
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. David Mitchell
philosophical perspective humanity
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity Carl Sagan
philosophical two mind
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if. Bryce Dallas Howard
philosophical thinking hands
Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands. Camille Paglia
philosophical night darkness
A great cause of the night is lack of the sun. William Shakespeare
philosophical men magic
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion? David Hume
philosophical growth divinity
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. David Hume
philosophical world advantage
No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. David Hume
oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
oratory matter politician
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. Aldous Huxley
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare
oratory trying
We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this. Charles Williams
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
oratory firsts action
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action. Plutarch
persuasion resources
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . . Edward Gibbon
persuasion
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. Dwight D. Eisenhower
persuasion certain benevolence
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. John Calvin
persuasion conviction convincing
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. Lord Chesterfield
persuasion convinced
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. Herodotus
persuasion proverbs rudder ruled
He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock. Scottish Proverbs
persuasion companion
A companion's words of persuasion are effective. Homer
persuasion
I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion. Joan Armatrading
persuasion christ
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. John Owen