Sentiments Quotes - Page 32

• Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

  John Calvin

  Confused, Mad, Wicked

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)”, p.81, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Dependent, Fairs

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• There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Sick, Exhibitions

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• The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

  John Dewey

  Appreciation, Real, Artist

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• It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Inspire, Delight

  Mary Roach (2014). “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, People, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.259, Library of America

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• Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Want, Obedience

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.

  Harriet Martineau

  God, Religious, Conditions

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• It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

  Josiah Warren

  Common, Radical, Discovering

  Josiah Warren (1852). “Equitable commerce: a new development of principles as substitutes for laws and governments, for the harmonious adjustment and regulation of the pecuniary, intellectual, and moral intercourse of mankind, proposed as elements of new society”, p.105

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• The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.

  Francis Chan

  Trying, Clay, Needs

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

  Henry Clay

  House, Gentleman, Forgotten

  Speech, 8 January 1813, in C. Colton (ed.) 'The Works of Henry Clay' (1904) vol. 1, p. 197.

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Drinking, Years

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• Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Despotism, Tyranny

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• I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Men, Weight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• I do not set myself up as an advocate of the woman's right doctrine, but would rather appear in the character of a quiet lady expressing her sentiments, not so much to the public as to her immediate friends.

  Belle Boyd

  Character, Doctrine, Quiet

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.461

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• As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.

  James Crawford

  Touching, Humans

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• Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

  Charles Dickens

  Reading, Writing, Character

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.165

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• The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

  Salvador Dali

  Sad Life, Desire, Artistic

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Generosity

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Education, Children

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.10, 谷月社

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• Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  May, Enthusiasm, Chill

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.18

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• It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of their symbols. It is as if an ox had strayed into a church and were trying to bethink himself. Nevertheless, they are capable of reverence; but we Yankees are a people in whom this sentiment has nearly died out, and in this respect we cannot bethink ourselves even as oxen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Yankees, Oxen, People

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.17, Graphic Arts Books

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• I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

  Brandi Carlile

  Thinking, Heartfelt, Singing

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• Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

  Mary Ruefle

  Long, Facts, Language

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.42, Wave Books

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