Ignoble Quotes - Page 4

• Si no hay un punto en el universo que descubramos con los métodos de la ciencia, hay un punto que podemos dar al universo por la forma en que vivimos, amándonos unos a otros, descubriendo cosas sobre la naturaleza, creando obras de arte. Y eso... en cierto modo, aunque no seamos las estrellas de un drama cósmico, si el único drama que protagonizamos es uno que nos vamos inventando sobre la marcha, no es del todo innoble que frente a este universo impersonal y sin amor nos hagamos una islita de calor y amor y ciencia y arte. No es un papel totalmente despreciable el que desempeñamos.

  Steven Weinberg

  Arte, Estrellas, Drama

  "La fe de los científicos: En sus propias palabras". Libro editado por Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.

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• Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hombres, Doe, Mundo

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Virginibus Puerisque, Part I, 1922.

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• Pasas junto a un niño pequeño, pasas, rencoroso, con palabras feas, con corazón iracundo; puede que no te hayas fijado en el niño, pero él te ha visto, y tu imagen, indecorosa e innoble, puede permanecer en su corazón indefenso. Tú no lo sabes, pero puedes haber sembrado en él una semilla maligna y puede crecer, y todo porque no tuviste cuidado ante el niño, porque no fomentaste en ti un amor cuidadoso, activamente benévolo.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Amor, Niños, Corazón

  "The Brothers Karamazov".

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• My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Anger, Together, Examination

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• We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

  Anthony Eden

  Fighting, Europe, Long

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (2005). “The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957”, p.167, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• La principal tragedia de mi vida es, como todas las tragedias, una ironía del Destino. Rechazo la vida real como si fuera una condena; rechazo los sueños como si fueran una innoble liberación. [...]Tras el fin de las estrellas inútilmente blanqueadas en el cielo de la mañana y la brisa menos fría en el apenas anaranjado matizado en el amarillo de la luz sobre las dispersas nubes bajas, yo, que no había dormido, pude al fin, lentamente levantar mi cuerpo, agotado de nada del lecho desde el que había pensado el universo.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sueño, Mañana, Estrellas

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• Es mejor hundirse en los grandes mares para cuya navegación fueron hechos los corazones humanos que pudrirse en los muelles en un anclaje innoble.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Heart, Sea, Made

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). "El fuego de mi estudio"

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• I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hate, People, Majority

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• There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.

  Theophile Gautier

  Belleza, Hermoso, Hombres

  "Mademoiselle de Maupin". Book by Théophile Gautier), Préface (p. 21), 1835.

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• The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Boys, Law

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• No sólo los hijos de los ricos o de los poderosos, sino de todos
  por igual,
  niños y niñas, nobles e innobles, ricos y pobres, de todas las ciudades
  y
  pueblos, aldeas y caseríos.
  En efecto, la educación es necesaria para todos, y esto es evidente si
  consideramos
  los diferentes grados de capacidad. Nadie duda de que los
  estúpidos
  necesitan instrucción para sacudirse su torpeza natural. Pero
  en
  que una mente activa, si no está ocupada en cosas útiles, se ocupará en lo que es inútil.
  si no se ocupa de cosas útiles, se ocupará de lo inútil,
  curioso y pernicioso.

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Powerful, Children

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• The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

  Quentin Crisp

  Done, World, Knows

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• We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Gente, Comunidad, Afroamericano

  Fuente: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

  Lesley M. M. Blume

  Mean, Goal, Noble

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

  Robertson Davies

  Blessed, Tragedy, Half

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

  Anatole France

  Girl, Regret, Past

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• Confusion is not an ignoble condition

  Brian Friel

  Confusion, Conditions

  Brian Friel (2013). “Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.393, Faber & Faber

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• One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don't want to go to Hell. That would be an ignoble, ignominious reason for being good, and I think that if anybody was good to you just because they hoped for a heavenly reward, you wouldn't respect them, you'd probably give them a wide berth.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Giving, Heaven

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

  Charles Dickens

  Divertido, Humorístico, Malvado

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.31

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• To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.

  Walter Pater

  Moving, Ambition, People

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

  Norman Douglas

  Majority, Motive

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• La compasión es una de las emociones más nobles de que dispone el ser humano; la autocompasión es posiblemente la más innoble. . . [Es una incapacidad, una enfermedad emocional paralizante que distorsiona gravemente nuestra percepción de la realidad... un narcótico que deja a sus adictos consumidos y abandonados.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Actitud, Realidad, Emocional

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• Mi filosofía de vida es que los mansos no heredarán más que envilecimiento, frustración y muertes innobles; que hay seguridad en la fuerza personal; que se puede luchar contra el Ayuntamiento y ganar; que cualquier acción es mejor que ninguna acción, aunque sea la acción equivocada; que nunca se alcanza la gloria ni la realización personal a menos que se esté dispuesto a arriesgarlo todo, a atreverse a cualquier cosa, a jugársela siempre; y que una vez que uno se hace fuerte o rico o potente o poderoso es responsabilidad del fuerte ayudar al débil a hacerse fuerte.

  Harlan Ellison

  Strong, Powerful, Philosophy

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook: Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Real, Lying

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• Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

  Plato

  Mean, Color, Cooking

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