The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only... modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that th...ey were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very considerably smaller than Australia and British Somaliland put together. As things stand at present there is nothing mu...ch the Texans can do about this, and ... they are inclined to shy away from the subject in ordinary conversation, muttering defensively about the size of oranges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience o...f total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each pai...nting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, bu...t also by the quantity it yields.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers ind...ependently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Are twelve wise men more wise than one? or will twelve fools, put together, make one sage? Are twelve honest men more honest than ...one?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not been asked, as I should have been asked, what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth, the mouth of the first immoral...ist: for what constitutes the tremendous historical uniqueness of that Persian is just the opposite of this. Zarathustra was the first to consider the struggle between good and evil as the very wheel in the machinery of things: a translation of morals into the metaphysical, as force, cause, and end-in-itself, is his work. But this question itself is at bottom its own answer. Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality: as a result, he must also be the first to recognize it. Not only has he more experience in this matter, for a longer time, than any other thinker--all history is after all the refutation by experiment of the principle of this so-called "moral world order"Mwhat is more important is that Zarathustra is more truthful than any other thinker. His doctrine, and his alone, posits truthfulness as the supreme virtue--this means exactly the opposite of the cowardice of the "idealist" who flees from reality; Zarathustra has more intestinal fortitude than all other thinkers put together. To speak the truth and to shoot well with arrows, that is Persian virtue.--Am I understood?--The self- overcoming of morality, out of truthfulness, the self-overcoming of the moralist, into his opposite--into me--that is what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »