George A. Moore Quotes

We will pass on a document will not have exactly the same meaning it had when we received it from our fathers.

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

… ideas are structures built over time, each part added by a new generation.

Use it, enjoy it, but always handle history with care.

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.

Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, (and) hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is [42].

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.

If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

Architecture is the work of nations

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. A Russian state was created around Kiev about 1,200 years ago. Ukraine itself has been part of Russia for 500 years, and I would say most Russians consider it part of Russian patrimony. The ideal solution would be to have a Ukraine like Finland or Austria that can be a bridge between these two rather than an outpost.

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.