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Us Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best…
- Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
- We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made…
- Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.…
- The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that…
- Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as…
- We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle