Human Thought

Famous quotes containing the words human thought, human and/or thought:

“And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate
With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon
Of human thought or form,”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)