Alfred de Vigny quote: "What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
ALFRED DE VIGNY

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opini...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond ti...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
ALFRED DE VIGNY

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
ALFRED DE VIGNY

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the huma...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
ALFRED DE VIGNY

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
ALFRED DE VIGNY

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but wh...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
ALFRED DE VIGNY

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we no...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
ALFRED DE VIGNY

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
ALFRED DE VIGNY

Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, a...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowle...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians ...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children ...
ALFRED DE VIGNY

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas
ALFRED VIGNY

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to ca...
ALFRED VIGNY

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
ALFRED VIGNY

Let the poet always walk thus
ALFRED VIGNY

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, with...
ALFRED VIGNY

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
ALFRED VIGNY

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, with...
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY

Let the poet always walk thus
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to ca...
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
ALFRED VICTOR VIGNY

How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

One Must not Trifle with Love.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

The return makes one love the farewell.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

Great artists have no country.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
ALFRED DE MUSSET

I cannot help it;- in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

Poets represent love as sculptors design beauty, as musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed...
ALFRED DE MUSSET

J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie,
Et mes amis et ma gaieté;
J'ai perdu jusqu'à la fierté ALFRED DE MUSSET

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English
ALFRED DE MUSSET

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

The return makes one love the farewell
ALFRED DE MUSSET

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
ALFRED DE MUSSET

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the...
ALFRED DE MUSSET

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometime...
ALFRED DE MUSSET

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your o...
ALFRED DE MUSSET

Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER

Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL

Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
ALFRED JARRY

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON

... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY

It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY

Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically Engli...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the...
ALFRED SUTRO

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY

Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th...
ALFRED NOBEL

Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
ALFRED ADLER

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER

To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ...
ALFRED JARRY

Man knows more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
ALFRED NOBEL

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
ALFRED AUSTIN

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
ALFRED ADLER

It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up...
ALFRED DOMETT

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
--ALFRED MARSHALL

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon...
ALFRED ADLER

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER

Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled ...
ALFRED ADLER

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who s...
ALFRED ADLER

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetra...
ALFRED ADLER

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relations...
ALFRED ADLER

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of t...
ALFRED ADLER

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER

Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who...
ALFRED ADLER

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning
ALFRED ADLER

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
ALFRED ADLER

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ma...
ALFRED ADLER

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
ALFRED ADLER

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, an...
ALFRED ADLER

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assem...
ALFRED BUNN

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
ALFRED JARRY

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfil...
ALFRED ADLER

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert.
ALFRED MONTAPERT

In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a sym...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosop...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) W...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original...
ALFRED JARRY

It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
ALFRED AUSTIN

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
ALFRED BRENDEL

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to c...
ALFRED ADLER

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its o...
ALFRED ADLER

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by...
ALFRED KASTLER

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilize...
ALFRED NOBEL

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevi...
ALFRED ADLER

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, ...
ALFRED NOBEL

By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir...
ALFRED ENOCH

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit...
ALFRED ADLER

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
ALFRED ADLER

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and dif...
ALFRED NOBEL

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
ALFRED MARSHALL

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
ALFRED MARSHALL

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

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Alfred de Vigny

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

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