A Quote by Oscar Wilde

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Oscar Wilde

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Artificial Body Idealism Invented Men Realism Separation Soul Soul And Body Void Vulgar

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Richard M. Nixon

Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.

Albert Howard

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Carl Jung

It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he had the feeling that he wasn't alone. Harry believed in the existence of the soul. Not that he was particularly religious as such, but it was one thing which always struck him when he saw a dead body: the body was bereft of something...the creature had gone, the light had gone,there was not the illusory afterglow that long-since burned-out stars have. The body was missing its soul and it was the absence of the soul that made Harry believe.

Jo Nesbo

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.

Rumi

Death is the separation of soul from body.

Chrysippus

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Henry A. Kissinger

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Mary Parker Follett

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

Laurence Sterne

Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

Laozi

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.