“Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.”
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“Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.”
“In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.”
“You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.”
“We are all wise for other people, none for himself.”
“Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”
“The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.”
“Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.”
“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”
“People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.”
“Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.”
“The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.”
“How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.”
“Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.”
“When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.”
“I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.”
“The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.”
“The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.”
“Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.”