The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.
The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
It (government) is neither business nor technology nor applied science (It is) one of the subtlest of the arts since it is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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