What did George Eliot mean by: A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen. George Eliot Author · England Copy
If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Eliot, Ideology, Influence, Leadership, 0 George Eliot Author · England
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Eliot, Balance, Focus, Passion, 0 George Eliot Author · England
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Eliot, Pride, Scorn, Truth, 0 George Eliot Author · England
+ Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly. Author, July 11, 2023January 2, 2025, George Eliot, Fire, Hatred, 0 George Eliot Author · England
Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people’s sorrow. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Eliot, Empathy, Isolation, Self-absorption, 0 George Eliot Author · England
+ History repeats itself. Author, July 13, 2023January 2, 2025, George Eliot, Cycles, Patterns, Repetition, 0 George Eliot Author · England
+ Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. Author, August 5, 2023January 2, 2025, George Eliot, Actions, Identity, Responsibility, 0 George Eliot Author · England
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Eliot, Beauty, Communication, Expression, 0 George Eliot Author · England
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
