#lame

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bothering #declaim #flame #lights #passions

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

#experiment #fails #happiness #lamentable #life

The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them. ↗

— Fred Savage

#called #fred #frightens #how #i

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#criminal #crown #daring #diminishes #fortune

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#blind #blind man #carries #his #lame

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#blamed #distributes #his #manager #parts

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? ↗

— Franz Schubert

#different #fantasy #flame #guilty #him

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#another #be thankful #being #burst #encounter

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#another #being #blown #deepest #each

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. ↗

— John Selden

#drinking #excess