#solely

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#contemplation #goodness #our #own #solely

While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#campaign #climate #convictions #culture #current

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#deceiving #does #effect #executed #insincere

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#books #does #however #live #poetry

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#because #been #collective #consists #divine

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#beauty #difficulty #gravest #important #making

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#aguilera #besides #certain #christina #different

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. ↗

— Roland Allen

#acts #any #apostles #arriving #behind

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ↗

— Leon Blum

#consist #courage #making #may #morality

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #because #civilization #deal #develop