Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
... it would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident.
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice It is our true policy to st.
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter for his own caprice he is not thereby discovering the fundamental principles of the universe nor becoming acquainted with the ideas of God. If he can find, in experience, sets of entities which obey the same logical scheme as his mathematical entities, then he has applied his mathematics to the external world he has created a branch of science.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.
She loved elegance, he loved art;
They were as wide as the poles apart:
Yet -- Cupid and Caprice are hand and glove --
They met at a dinner, they fell in love.
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple d
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
The convention missionaries call modesty has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim -- anybody's diseased caprice.
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