Richard Tillinghast famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

  • No one man is superior to the game.

  • The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

  • As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.

  • We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

  • Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

  • An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  • No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

  • The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

  • Originality is the art of concealing your sources.