Marvellous – Quotes

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said \”Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty\”, and this is fanaticism. Elie Wiesel

We nothing know, but

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can’t believe. Edward Young

I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains. I went to Ruapehu and for the first time I saw snow. I had never seen snow before and for 10 days the group of us had a marvellous time. Edmund Hillary

There are few persons,

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them. Edgar Allan Poe

Love and understand the

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. E. M. Forster

because it\’s Spring thingS

because it’s Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it ‘s A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse’s)but what’s wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It’s we) e. e. cummings

Bach is an astronomer,

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. Frederic Chopin

The ancients had a

The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable … Read more

Too often, older women

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. Francesca Annis

It\’s marvellous to be

It’s marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last. Dusty Springfield