#ect

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#condemn #condemns #forgives #god #law

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture. ↗

— David Elliott

#art #culture #experience #our #our time

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. ↗

— Don Ellis

#assumed #audience #come #compromising #expect

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#art #arts #beginning #building #dancing

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#been #changed #feelings #had #i

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#been #circumstances #live #men #men and women

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#existence #i #integrated #intended #into

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. ↗

— Ben Elton

#count #dependent #first #get #how

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect--they are much more interesting. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#imperfection #beauty