Biographer

Quotes & Thinkers in Biographer

164 thinkers

Sort:

Notable Thinkers

40+ of 164

🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature

Western philosophy

1803–1882

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

"...in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it."

"On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it."

"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art."

"For the present the Grammar may yet be of service. After an eight years' life and... 4000 copies, it reappears in a revised and enlarged form."

"[I]n speaking of Italy, romance has omitted for once to exaggerate."

"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism."

"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."

"Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear"

"Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise."

"The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape."

"Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire."

25 quotes

Tacitus

Politics

"All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open."

21 quotes

🇬🇷Plutarch

Philosophy

"Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares."

"I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love."

"By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a prescence, a genius loci, a potency."

"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

"The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other."

12 quotes

🇺🇸Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Politics

anti-vax movement

b. 1954

"Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children."

9 quotes

🇬🇧Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

Literature

1911–1983

"At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent."

"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

"Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter."

"I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years."

"Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema."

"Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost."

"The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the "founding of the world": where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence."

33 quotes