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«One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
cooperative, leavened, settlement, settlements, sufficiently, The Settlement
«People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
induced, inducing, praise, provide, seasoned, seasoning, sufficiently, swallow, swallow up
«One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.»
Author: Robert Collier
| Keywords:
believe, comes, dominated by, dominating, false, falser, falsest, false statement, often, of one mind, oneself, repeats, statement, sufficiently, The Statement, thought, true, true statement
«I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity,
Mankind
| Keywords:
blemish, blemished, blemishes, curse, depravities, depravity, expedient, Expedients, instinct, intrinsic, mortal, petty, poisonous, revenge, subterranean, sufficiently
«Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
appreciated, nay, overrate, overrated, overrates, overrating, philanthropy, selfishness, sufficiently
«Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
appreciated, philanthropy, sufficiently
«I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
aims, arises, distinctly, erect, erecting, erects, foundation, hut, mischief, sufficiently, The Foundation, tower, Towered, undertaken
«I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Company
| Keywords:
Company of, incorrectly, peasants, sufficiently
«No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades- that of government»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
hardest, meanest, qualified, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, sufficiently, trade, trades, undertakes, undertook
«Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.»
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