Quotes of: Freedom-of-expression Keyword

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Wassily Kandinsky

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

Success is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of the expression of your infinite potential.

How to be Successful: Powerful Lessons for Success

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Hyperion

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

Ideas Have Consequences

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

Jane Eyre

The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

John Halifax, Gentleman

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.

Jude the Obscure

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

The Killer Angels

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Killosophy

Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

Killosophy

He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren't used to seeing the broader picture in small things.

The Room

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

The Roots of American Order

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

State of Fear

I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape.

Shiver

You are a unique and beautiful expression of the mysterious gift of life and creation.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

Murder on the Orient Express

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

Murder on the Orient Express

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

The October Country

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Lincoln on Democracy