A Quote by Blaise Pascal

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Blaise Pascal

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Admiration Infancy Spoils

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Blaise Pascal
French - Philosopher
June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the spoils change us.

Matt Bellamy

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

Alice Walker

Admiration is seen as a noble sentiment - we admire people for admiring others, detecting, in their admiration, a suggestion of taste and humility.

Maria Konnikova

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

Ayn Rand

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance.

Al-Ghazali

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

Maria Konnikova

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

William Hazlitt

If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.

Georges Cuvier

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

John Major

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.