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“What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.”
Source : "The Ladder of Perfection". Book by Walter Hilton translated by Leo Sherley-Price, July 5, 1988.
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“It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.”
Source : Leonard Krieger, M. L. Brick (1992). “Ideas and Events: Professing History”, p.152, University of Chicago Press
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“I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive.”
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“The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.”
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“The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.”
Source : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.132
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“Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.”
Source : "Bilbie v. Lumley and Others 102 ER 448". English case (2 East, 469), June 28, 1802.
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“The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.”
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“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.”
