“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
― Pensees
― Pensees
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“A great many of those who "debunk" traditional or (as they would say) "sentimental" values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
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