Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes - Page 2

• Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Ideas, Interesting, Littles

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.262

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• Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Powerful, Law, Society

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.195

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• All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

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• Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light, the novelist has a higher office than merely and amuse his contemporaries.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Light, Office, Novelists

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “Thoughts about Art”, p.1

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• Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Friends, Intellectual, Age

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.304

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