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John Vyvyan Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“A seed of true human love in the heart will blossom as divine love in the soul.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: Love Trajectories, Gradually Expanding Notion of Human Goodness
“Infinite beauty cannot be conceived by a finite mind.”
— John Vyvyan, Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: The Bureaucracy of Biology, Mind Valt, Don't Let It All Through
“Tragedy, even on the threshold of its consummation, is not inevitable.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: Terrible Endings, Tragedy
“Every blossoming of civilisation is partly promise of the future, but mainly a summation of the past.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: History, The Sum of The Past, Past and Future
“Shakespeare’s philosophy, although expanding from play to play, is consistent throughout.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic
Tagged: Same Story, Over and Over Again
“There is one good reason for visiting hell — to find and to show the way out. Descent may be, and perhaps must be, a preliminary to ascent.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic
Tagged: Hades, Hell, Growth, Decent
“A poet does not write to set down things he clearly knows, but to open the lips of his own oracle.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: Poets, Poetry, Writing, Writing as Discovery, Quote of the Moment
“Shakespeare was never an anarchist; and when he studies the problem of power, he does not suggest that it can be solved by abolition. His solution is an aristocracy of the spirit; his qualifications for rulership are self-realisation, forgiveness and love; and his ideal is a philosopher, or perhaps a mystic king.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: Undergridding Kingship, Rulers, Government, Political Theory, Politics in Literature
“When the angels leave, the demons come in.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: Angels, What Fills You?
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