Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press
#Moon Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Tolerance Quotes
“Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.”
“Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.”
Source : Walter Bagehot (1973). “Literary studies”
“The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.”
“I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.”
“When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]”
“A knight ending is really a pawn ending.”
“I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.”
“The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.”
Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.150, Transaction Publishers
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