Quotations Set 38

1. Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. - William James, psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)

2. The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. - Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)

3. Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

4. Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. - Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman and reformer (1829-1906)

5. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

6. The noble and the nobility are usually at odds with one another. - Johann Gottfried Seume, author (1763-1810)

7. There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

8. Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1889-1951)

9. It was our own moral failure and not any accident of chance, that while preserving the appearance of the Republic we lost its reality. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)

10. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry, revolutionary (1736-1799)

11. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. - Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)

12. The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property. - Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)

13. No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry Brooks Adams, historian (1838-1918)

14. I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. - Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

15. They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. - Louise Erdrich, author (b. 1954)

16. It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. - Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

17. There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. - George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

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