This has given me the greatest trouble and still does to realize that what things are called is incomparably more important than what they are. The reputation, name, and appearance, the usual measure and weight of a thing, what it counts for -- originally almost always wrong and arbitrary, thrown over things like a dress and altogether foreign to their nature and even to their skin -- all this grows from generation unto generation, merely because people believe in it, until it gradually grows to be part of the thing and turns into its very body what at first was appearance becomes in the end, almost invariably, the essence and is effective as such.
Quotes about incomparably (12 Quotes)
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us... than the need for any external expansion of our power.
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.
Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
Listen to the incomparably beautiful story of lord, O my brothers, O Siblings of Destiny.
The sun and the moon are lamps of incomparably beautiful light. Throughout the three worlds, the Infinite Light is pervading. In the shops of the city of the body, in the fortresses and in the huts, the True Merchandise is traded.