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Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing) -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. -- Louis Kahn
It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. -- John Burnham Schwartz
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. -- Guillaume Canet
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. -- Salman Rushdie
The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become. -- Hampton Sides
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. -- Juan Goytisolo
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. -- Sri Aurobindo
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. -- George Santayana
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities. -- Cormac McCarthy
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. -- Louis Agassiz
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. -- Patricia Highsmith
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. -- Remy de Gourmont
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world. -- Robert Greene
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. -- George Santayana
Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees. -- Dag Hammarskjold

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