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- The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
- I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
- It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we…
- The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
- The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for…
- If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse
- A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask…
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare…
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is…
- The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
- But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
- [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see…
- The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
- Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything…
- Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
- The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting…
- The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
- Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the…
- Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The…
- It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
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