Evelyn Beatrice Hall famous quotes

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Third Person #Thirds #Platonic

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Blessing #Talent #Born

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Writing #Liberty #Found

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#World #Goodness #Modest

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Depth #Lost #Desolation

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Character #World #Intellect

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Mean #Men #Teeth

It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Father #Book #Sacrifice

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#Men #Reform #Avalanches

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.