Gatsby In Chapter 9 Quotes & Sayings

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No. — John Marston

The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs. — Jacques Maritain

[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error
that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field. — William James

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld