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Karen DeCrow Quote: “In chamber music, the audience can…”

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

October 16, 2021 1937, American, December 18, Karen DeCrow, Quotes by Activists

John O’Donohue Quote: “When we hear the word ‘beauty’…”

When we hear the word ‘beauty’, we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.

October 4, 2021 1956, Irish, January 1, John O'Donohue, Quotes by Poets

James Fenton Quote: “Poetry carries its history within it…”

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

October 3, 2021 1949, April 25, British, James Fenton, Quotes by Poets

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: “We hear only those questions for…”

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

September 25, 2021 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche, German, October 15, Quotes by Philosophers

Apollonius of Tyana Quote: “O thou Sun, send me as…”

O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.

September 24, 2021 15 AD, Apollonius of Tyana, Greek, Quotes by Philosophers

Horace Quote: “Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are…”

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

September 23, 2021 65 BC, Horace, Quotes by Poets, Roman

Hannah Arendt Quote: “Nothing we use or hear or…”

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

September 16, 2021 1906, German, Hannah Arendt, October 14, Quotes by Philosophers

Desiderius Erasmus Quote: “Now I believe I can hear…”

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn’t -it’s human.

September 1, 2021 1466, Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch, October 26, Quotes by Philosophers

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote: “With the people, for the people…”

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that’s what really happens.

August 31, 2021 1917, American, Fannie Lou Hamer, October 6, Quotes by Activists

Georges Jacques Danton Quote: “The tocsin you hear today is…”

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

August 25, 2021 1759, French, Georges Jacques Danton, October 26, Quotes by Revolutionaries

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