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«Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination.»
Author: John Luther
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
build, character, choice, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, determination, determinations, extent, gift, given, outstanding, piece, Piece By Piece, praised, talent, talents, to that extent, to what extent, with determination
«What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adult, adult intelligence, average, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, distressing, feeble, mentality, radiant
«There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
| Keywords:
arbitrary, contrasting, diverse, fabric, fitting, fittings, gamut, human culture, potentialities, potentiality, richer, rich in, weave
«It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absolute, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, dimension, in a way, Parodies, parody, preserves, The Absolute, transforms
«Happiness ain't a thing in itself /it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
any longer, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, dulled, fresh, novelties, novelty, pleasant, The Force, thing in itself
«We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
being brave, brave, braver, Braves, braving, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, equal, generous, joy, patchwork, sin, sorrow
«Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
as such, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, eternal, fullest, requires, The Eternal
«One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, Creation, derive, enjoyment, inclined, inclines, inclining, included, intense, intention