I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as... excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No doubt for the average man nationalism is no more than one of the faiths that live together in actual if illogical partnership i...n his heart and mind (illogical in the sense that some of these faiths, say Christianity and national patriotism, may have mutually incompatible ethical ideals). Yet it is hard to exaggerate the extent to which for many modern Western men the worship of the nation-state occupies a major part of their conscious relations with groups outside the family.... The ritual surrounding the flag, patriotic hymns, the reverent reading of patriotic texts, the glorification of national heroes (saints), the insistence on the nation's mission, the nation's basic consonance with the scheme of the universe--all of this is so familiar to most of us that unless we are internationalist crusaders in favor of a world-state or some other proposed means for securing universal peace we never even notice it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or pr...aise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that ...which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They... are not trying to hurt you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »