Pensées of JoubertGeorge Allen, 1896 - 135 oldal |
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105. oldal - It is not the opinions of authors and what in their teaching may be termed assertions, that instruct and nourish the mind. There is, in reading great authors, an invisible and hidden essence — a nameless something, a fluid, a salt, a subtle principle — which is more nourishing than all the rest.
53. oldal - Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter, of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
3. oldal - I cannot build a house for my ideas," said he: "I have tried to do without words, and words take their revenge on me by their difficulty." "If there is a man upon earth tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself.
38. oldal - Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
53. oldal - One of the surest ways of killing a tree is to lay bare its roots. It is the same with institutions. We must not be too ready to disinter the origin of those we wish to preserve.
43. oldal - Those who never retract their •opinions love themselves more than they love truth. There are some things that man can only know vaguely. About these, men of great intellect are content to entertain but vague notions. But this does not satisfy vulgar minds. Naturally and necessarily overwhelmed with ignorance, they, in their childish vexation, will bear with it in no form. The only way of quieting them, is to offer them, or allow them to forge for themselves, fixed and definite ideas upon matters...
xxi. oldal - ... it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. — HORACE MANN. We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. — ZiMMERMANN. When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book ; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand — LA BRUYERE.
12. oldal - THE voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated...
54. oldal - State those only need be anxious about public affairs whose business it is to direct them. A sheltering tree is their emblem. It is truly of the first importance that, if private persons are to be relieved from these anxieties, the government should be efficient, — that is to say, that its parts should be so harmonised that its functions may be easily performed, and its permanence ensured. A people constantly in unrest is always busied in building ; its shelter is but a tent, — it is encamped,...
44. oldal - ... are some things that man can only know vaguely. About these, men of great intellect are content to entertain but vague notions. But this does not satisfy vulgar minds. Naturally and necessarily overwhelmed with ignorance, they, in their childish vexation, will bear with it in no form. The only way of quieting them is to offer them, or allow them to forge for themselves, fixed and definite ideas upon matters in which all precision is erroneous. These commonplace intellects have no wings ; they...