Famous quotes containing the word admit:
“Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allows a number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)