"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."

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"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."

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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Heart, Words

"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Heart, Will, Statesman

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Heart,

"Knock on the heart's emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Heart, Emotion, Reason, Doubt

"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Heart, Old

"Your heart is the gateway to the divine."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Heart, Divine

"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Heart, Mind, Needs

"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Heart, Mind

"Those who have a listening heart can hear the song of silence."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Heart, Listening, Silence

"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Heart, Body, Measure, Violence

Explore more quotes by Alfred de Vigny

"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."

Heart

"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."

Love

"From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own."

Nature

"One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact."

History

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."

Art

"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

Life

"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."

Civilization

"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

Evil

"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."

Poetry

"I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in."

Experience