Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great lead...er who is just entering the room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory gods... that a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but eve...ry end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the econo...my of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods through pretending that they sell, or power through making believe you are powerful, or through a packed jury or caucus, bribery and "repeating" votes, or wealth by fraud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are ...rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Well, well," he said to himself, "you are not in Belgium; let us begin our apprenticeship in earnest, and so long as we are in th...e woods, howl heartily with the wolves."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
AIDS was ... an illness in stages, a very long flight of steps that led assuredly to death, but whose every step represented a uni...que apprenticeship. It was a disease that gave death time to live and its victims time to die, time to discover time, and in the end to discover life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hm, the beacon of the press. In the hell to which all journalists must descend when they die, Mr. Wiggam, we shall sit at red hot ...desks with quills of fire in our hand and spend eternity on eternity writing about the salubrious weather of that region. Let us serve our apprenticeship here thoroughly and intelligently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring t...hem to where they can be brought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »