“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. The Method of Nature (1841), p. 25”
All Quotes
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“I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders. Letter to Thomas Carlyle”
“Walter Savage Landor”
“God may consent, but not forever.”
“If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,”
“Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity, wholesome, sweet, and poetic? It is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested, a trutn”
“The clergy are as like as peas. "The Preacher", in The Index: A Weekly Paper (Feb. 5, 1880) pp. 62”
“Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever. From a lecture on Books given in the Fraternity Course in Boston in 1864; the quoted phrase 'glittering generalities' had been used by Rufus Choate to describe the declaration of the rights of man in the Preamble to the Constitution”
“A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster”
“Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. Parnassus (1874) Preface”
“Raúl is my bete noire”
“(Not) the Raúl thing , The Independent , June 6, 2006”
“He is a winner. He is the inheritance of Real Madrid”
“Raúl is the best forward in the world”
“Raúl is one of the best of Europe. He is Real Madrid's spirit. He is like Matthäus for us: indispensable, and with a bad haircut”
“When he plays, in his mind there is only the goal; it's the football essence. Every time they do something, you stand up over your seat”
“I once said that Raúl is like a Ferrari and now I think he is like a McLaren, Fernando Alonso's car. and he is also one of the few guy's that if i ever have a problem i would go to him rather than my own mother Fernando Hierro 2007, [1]”
“I’d sign him right here and now, and I’d go wherever it takes to land a player like that, he’s a "Crack" (a "match changing" player) player and I’m a fan of everything that he does, and what’s more now is the prefect time to sign him as he’s got a wealth of experience and has reached full maturity. Ottmar Hitzfeld 2007 [2]”
“I hope he doesn't like travelling, Failing that we will stop him entering the country. Real buy these big players like Figo, Zidane and Ronaldo but I think the best player in the world is Raúl. Alex Ferguson 2003, [3]”
“For me I would say my favourite players in Europe are Raúl and Figo.”
“Seneca the Elder”
“Seneca the Younger”
“I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty. Plato , Symposium , 175d”
“It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself. Gorgias , 482c”
“In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. Phaedrus”
“Oh dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him. Socrates' prayer, Phaedrus , 279”
“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. Plato, Crito 49c”
“Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding? Crito”
“Nothing is to be preferred before justice”
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Theaetetus , 155d”