"There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us."

Art, Beauty, Perception, Aesthetics

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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Art, Beauty, Creation, Inspiration, Aesthetic

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Poetry, Humor, Accuracy, Creativity

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Storytelling, Life, Reality, Truth

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Art, Inspirational, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Art, Poetry, Expression, Creativity, Life

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Art, Storytelling, Magic, Emotion, Heart

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Art, Poetry, Time, Music, Writing

"Music gives life to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Life, Soul, Energy

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Art, Writing, Life, Presence, Creativity

"Music gives strength to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

Truth, Love, Falsehood

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."

Life, Nature, Being, Man

"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."

Wisdom, Evil, Fault, Faults, Illusion

"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

Faith, Religion, Act, Certainty, Sea

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

Nature, Importance, Ocean

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

Philosophy, Actions, Causes, Desire, Force

"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."

Wisdom, Actions, Causes, Force

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."

Wisdom, Nature, Habit, First

"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice."

Spiritual, God, Infinite, Justice, Nothing

"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."

Wisdom, Thought, Feet, Man