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- The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to…
- The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
- The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is…
- Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
- To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
- [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
- It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight…
- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is…
- I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to…
- These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are…
- Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher…
- Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
- There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where…
- There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it…
- In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no…
- It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
- Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can…
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
- The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster