“Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”
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“Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”
“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done”
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”
“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members”
“He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weak”
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking”
“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less”
“The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves”
“Jesting is often only indigence of intellect”
“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”
“The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised”
“The university brings out all abilities, including incapability”
“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions”
“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching”
“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win”
“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains”
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes”
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object”
“Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousness”
“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character”