Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
Sir Arthur Helps
Tag: Quote of the Day
17FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Do not mistake energy for enthusiasm; the softest speakers are often the most enthusiastic of men.
Sir Arthur Helps
16FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
The more truth you can get into any business, the better. Let the other side know the defects of yours, let them know how you are to be satisfied, let there be as little to be found as possible (I should say nothing), and if your business be an honest one, it will be best tended in this way.
Sir Arthur Helps
15FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.
Sir Arthur Helps
14FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine
13FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.
Heinrich Heine
12FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
Heinrich Heine
11FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Do not smile at my advice — the advice of a dreamer who warns you against Kantians, Fichteans, and philosophers of nature. Do not smile at the visionary who anticipates the same revolution in the realm of the visible as has taken place in the spiritual. Thought precedes action as lightning precedes thunder. German thunder is of true Germanic character; it is not very nimble, but rumbles along ponderously. Yet, it will come and when you hear a crashing such as never before has been heard in the world’s history, then you know that the German thunderbolt has fallen at last. At that uproar the eagles of the air will drop dead, and lions in the remotest deserts of Africa will hide in their royal dens. A play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent idyll.
Heinrich Heine
10FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Heinrich Heine
09FEB2022 – Quote of the Day
Why, of course, God will forgive me; that’s his business.
Heinrich Heine