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Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.
robert leighton— Theological Lectures, No. 5, "Of the Immortality of the Soul", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 514.
The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.
james monroe— Message to Congress (December 1822)
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.
adolf eichmann— Eichmman's memoir, quoted in Gotz Aly, Hitler’s Beneficiaries. How the Nazis Bought the German People (London: Verso, 2007), pp. 16-17.
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
ted malloch— p. 13 (Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011))
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand— George Sand, The Haunted Pool (1890) ch. 2.
Young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
— 1763 Remark, 21 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
james russell lowell— 1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.
Them's my sentiments!
william makepeace thackeray— 1847-8 Fred Bullock.Vanity Fair, ch.21.
La plupart des institutions sociales paraissent avoir pour objet de maintenir l'homme dans une médiocrité d'idées et de sentiments qui le rendent plus propre à gouverner ou à être gouverné.
nicolas chamfort— Maximes et Pensées, #514Most social institutions seem to be designed to keep man in a state of intellectual and emotional mediocrity that makes him more fit to govern or be governed.Maxims and Considerations
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.
joseph mccabe— The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels (1914)
Grotesque sentiments such as the lust of business success or economic power of any kind, and indeed every purely self-regarding passion, from that of the social climber to that of the salvation-seeking ascetic, are experienced by the explorer with something of that shame which the child, emerging into adolescence, may feel toward the still-clinging fascination of his outgrown toys, or with such disgust as the youth may feel when he wakes from some unworthy sexual infatuation
Olaf Stapledon— Chapter II: Exploring the Past
Them's my sentiments.
william makepeace thackeray— Vol. I, ch. 21.
"We hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
Thucydides— A summary of Athenian statements to the Melians, Book V, 5.89-[1]
Un enfant, monsieur, n'est-il pas l'image de deux êtres, le fruit de deux sentiments librement confondus?
honoré de balzac— What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?Ch. II: A Hidden Grief
The human voice may be denominated the music of the mind; language , a figurative mode of expressing our ideas and sentiments. The effects of flowing from this beneficent endowment are overwhelming in contemplation and almost infinite in extent. It is principally instrumental to all the moral and physical improvements of man, and enables him to pour forth his otherwise invisible, inaudible, unfathomable thoughts, to his fellow-man and to his God .
david brewster— Philosophical Magazine and Journal Of Science (July-December 1836), p. 346
Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.
robert williams buchanan— City of the Saints.
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
frances burney— The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, vol. 1, p. 8, journal entry, 1768.
Dans la langue de la bourgeoisie, la grandeur des mots est en raison directe de la petitesse des sentiments.
goncourt brothers— In the language of the bourgeoisie, the grandeur of the words is in direct proportion to the pettiness of the sentiments.November 29, 1860; translation from Béatrix Le Wita (trans. J. A. Underwood) French Bourgeois Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) p. 53.
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
benjamin graham— Part I, Chapter I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks, p. 4
The member of a culture … purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. … He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.
richard weaver— p. 26 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
rebecca west— "Mr. Chesterton in hysterics," The Clarion, (1913-11-14)
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, Literary Essays, Volume II (1870-1890), "Rousseau and the Sentimentalists".
Today some would say that those struggles are all over--that all the horizons have been explored--that all the battles have been won-- that there is no longer an American frontier. But I trust that no one in this vast assemblage will agree with those sentiments. For the problems are not all solved and the battles are not all won--and we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier--the frontier of the 1960's--a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-- a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
— John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech. Delivered on 15 July 1960 to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
— John F. Kennedy, address at the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 26, 1963.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 736.
For the elements of music, nature provides nothing but a multitude of tones differing in pitch, duration, and intensity by the greater or least degree... The conception of the relationships that exist among them is awakened in the intellect, and, by the action of sensitivity on the one hand, and will on the other, the mind coordinates the tones into different series, each of which corresponds to a particular class of emotions, sentiments, and ideas. Hence these series become various types of tonalities. (p.11f)
— Joseph Fétis, (1722). Traité complet de la théorie et de la pratique de l'harmonie contenant la doctrine de la science et de l'art, 2d ed., p.166. Brussels and Paris.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand— George Sand, The Haunted Pool (1890) ch. 2
But if any other course, in any one's opinion, be better than this, let him, even though he be a private soldier, boldly give us his sentiments; for the safety, which we all seek, is a general concern.
— Bk. 3, ch. 2; p. 89. (Anabasis)
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.
robert leighton— Robert Leighton, Theological Lectures, No. 5, "Of the Immortality of the Soul".
[Jan: As long as I'm around to pay you, I don't care. Kyle: My sentiments exactly] Mine, too! AH HA HA!
— Who: Boc
— Notes: Kyle has found and freed Jan, joking with her about how it will cost her a lot of money that she doesn't have. Boc emerges, having been disguised as a statue, and fights Kyle, but is killed.
