Lesser

Famous quotes containing the word lesser:

“A lady dying of diabetes
Listened to the radio,
Catching the lesser dithyrambs.
So heaven collects its bleating lambs.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“I
Am here a Poet, that doth drink of life
As lesser men drink wine.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)