#scorn

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#beauty #believes #centuries #considered #does

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. ↗

— Franz Marc

#closer #does #dream #expression #get

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#argued #credit #false #give #itself

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#average #average intelligence #been #complete #contemptuous

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#bomb #dagger #hands #hearts #infinite

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#andy #andy warhol #art #art world #artists

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#anxious #behalf #duty #old #scorn

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#earth #everywhere #people #scorned

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#how #human #human condition #integral #kitsch