Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image