 | J W Von Goethe - 1917 - 638 pages
...who was not unskilful on the violin, he had formed a very curious domestic band. He was wont to say: "Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1925 - 388 pages
...was not unskilful on the violin, he had formed a very curious domestic band. He was wont to say: " Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study,... | |
 | Judith K. Major - 1997 - 268 pages
...are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest, so easily do the spirit and the sense grow dead to the impression of the Beautiful and the Perfect, that every person should strive to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things, by everything in his... | |
 | Charles Lemert - 2006 - 216 pages
...Waldo Emerson, Experience (1841)) No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. (Mahatma Gandhi) Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study,... | |
 | 1865 - 1148 pages
...which are in a direction parallel to that line, must incline to the point of sight. THE BEACTIPÜL. — Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest, the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that everyone should study... | |
 | 1902 - 378 pages
...permission.) As an introduction to what I desire to say, I take an extract from (ioeth's Willu'lm Meister; ''Men are -so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest. The spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and the perfect that every one should... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - 1842 - 492 pages
..."are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest: so easily do the spirit and the sense grow dead to the impression of the Beautiful and the Perfect, that every person should strive to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things by every thing in his... | |
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Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling... 
