Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some pene...trating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if ...we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justl...y undervalued by others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, has... a conception of Pyrrhonism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little ne...ws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring sc...ientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who love only once in their lives are ... shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either t...he lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exe...rcise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational--an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »