#surrounds

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#front #good #i #like #me

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#aught #bliss #burial #closely #else

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#fortune #good #good fortune #greener #happiness

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #discover #exceeding #given #good

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it. ↗

— Peter Cook

#i #i am #interested #surrounds #universe

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#created #doubt #fable #given #him

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ↗

— Morton Gould

#experience #felt #i #music #normal

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#feeling #hope #life #meaning #regardless