#than

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#existence #flux #future #intensely #mobile

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#art #final #final analysis #less #modes

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#become #been #camera #photographs #rather

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. ↗

— Sophocles

#discovers #intends #justice #kind #more

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #fail #honor #i #prefer

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. ↗

— Sophocles

#fraud #honor #rather #succeed #than

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. ↗

— Sophocles

#any #better #friend #how #kindness

Better not to exist than live basely. ↗

— Sophocles

#better #exist #live #than

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. ↗

— Sophocles

#gave #him #man #more #offer