Proportion Quotes - Page 35

• Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.

  Mircea Eliade

  Men, World, Sacred

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• That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Simple, Creating, Issues

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• Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1527, Delphi Classics

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• The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Law, Appearance, Harmony

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Suggestions, Virtue

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• To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

  Charlton Heston

  Men, Moses

  "Moses Film Role Awes Portrayer". "Los Angeles Times" Newspaper, October 28, 1956.

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• The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in
  proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Division Of Labor, Perfection, Mind

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it backfired and whipped up abhorrence in the
  context of total revolution. This might be one of the explanations why repression assumed proportions unknown in other Communist countries. The mask of Angkar was a good tactic to grab
  power, but it proved disastrous in government.

  Pol Pot

  Country, Government, Hatred

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• What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?

  Andy Stanley

  Epic, Revival

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• Although your past has been painful devastating or cruel God has promised to be a Restorer and a Redeemer. He says He will "give us gladness in proportion to our former misery " and "replace the evil years with good".

  Sue Augustine

  Past, Years, Evil

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.46, Harvest House Publishers

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• The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial growth, massive urban concentrations and vastly increased energy needs. Industrial waste, the burning of fossil fuels, unrestricted deforestation, the use of certain types of herbicides, coolants and propellants: all of these are known to harm the atmosphere and environment.

  Pope John Paul II

  Ozone Layer, Growth, Atmosphere

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• ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who are no longer bound to earth. The degree to which bondages are exchanged for liberties while still in the flesh is in proportion to the extent to which eternal values are held in higher esteem that worldly success and possessions. If a man loves Me, he will hold his soul more precious than his body and will pursue holiness at the expense of wealth; for to follow after that which perishes is to forfeit the prize of the high calling in Christ.

  Frances J Roberts

  Men, Heaven, Waiting

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• People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your head is going to look so much more interesting if it's on a monochromatic column. Whereas I think people think of outfits and gets a little too fussy, a little too detailed. I'm always thinking of the line of a person standing with their head in a room and I always feel like a stalk, or a stem, or a pillar is nicer. I always think of everything architecturally.

  Rick Owens

  Thinking, Clothes, People

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• The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.

  Ralph Allen

  Creativity, Color, Remember

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• If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

  Virginia Woolf

  Successful, Night, Sight

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• To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Army, Pride, Age

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological tracts. Miscellaneous tracts. Dedications. Opinions on questions of law. Reviews and criticisms. Journey to the Western islands of Scotland. Prayers and meditations”, p.412

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• A lily of a day
  Is fairer far in May,
  Although it fall and die that night,
  It was the plant and flower of light.
  In small proportions we just beauties see,
  And in short measures life may perfect be.

  Ben Jonson

  Flower, Fall, Night

  'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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• an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rights, Law, Common

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2006). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.257, Yale University Press

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• The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

  Plutarch

  Men, Soul, Together

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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• Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Liberty, Fertility

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.359, Library of Alexandria

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• Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Community, Chance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?

  Henry James

  Ambition, Artist, Essence

  Henry James (1984). “Literary Criticism: French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition”, p.414, Library of America

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• My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Atheist, Attitude

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Population, Units

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.14, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.

  Huston Smith

  Beautiful, White, Issues

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