Robert Lynd > Quotes

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”
― Robert Lynd

“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”
― Robert Lynd

“A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.”
― Robert Lynd

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
― Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion; And Other Essays

“The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.”
― Robert Lynd

“There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.”
― Robert Lynd

“It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.”
― Robert Lynd

“It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans. ”
― Robert Lynd

“The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.”
― Robert Lynd, The Pleasures of Ignorance

“No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.”
― Robert Lynd

“Most human beings are quite likable if you do not see too much of them.”
― Robert Wilson Lynd

“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.”
― Robert Lynd

“In order to see birds, you have to become part of the silence.”
― Robert Wilson Lynd

“It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.”
― Robert Lynd

“History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.”
― Robert Lynd

“Most Human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them”
― Robert Wilson Lynd

“The crucial science of economics derives its data with the assumptions and concepts of a system conceived not in terms of such things as power but of blander processes such as the automatic balancing of the market”
― Robert Lynd

“great poetry marches along the path that leads to abundance of life, and not to a feeble and degenerate egotism. The”
― Robert Lynd, The Art of Letters