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It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be selfcritical?
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It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.
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It is appropriate here to recall that the socalled Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous…The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.
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It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion–the second, above it.
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It is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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It is not a fragrant world.- Raymond Chandler
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It is not at all simple to understand the simple.
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It is not safe for man to be alone,’ nor can all which the cold-hearted pedant stuns our ears with upon the subject ever give one answer of satisfaction to the mind; in the midst of the loudest vauntings of philosophy, nature will have her yearnings for society and friendship. A good heart wants something to be kind to; and the best parts of our blood, and the purest of our spirits suffer most under the destitution.
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It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.
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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
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It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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I’ve seen society change so much since the ’60s and early ’70s, and still we have the endowment and still we have art.
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
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