#witness

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cannot #composed #fit #god #mind

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#chambers #class #europe #had #having

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ↗

— Margaret Millar

#delivered #monologues #most #presence #simply

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#becomes #conscience #evil #his #ideal

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bears #good #good art #however #i

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#his #history #job #time #witness

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#arrival #artisans #assembled #dangerous #discontent

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cursing #hand #help #inflict #invoking

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. ↗

— George Santayana

#function #instrument #mind #operation #reward

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#deaths #existence #feel #friends #look