Henry Sidgwick Quotes

#1. I think if we could turn the dial a bit, and try to take what the philosopher Henry Sidgwick called "the point of view of the universe", and look from above, and realize that we are not special, none of us are, I think it would just cause a transformation.

Paul Bloom

#2. Original sin," he said thoughtfully. "That's about Adam an' - no, wait. I remember. Everybody's supposed to be sinful to start with because it takes a sin to get'm started.

Theodore Sturgeon

#3. It is easy to propose impossible remedies. The

Aesop

#4. Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

Henry Sidgwick

#5. It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#6. Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance.

Tom Boellstorff

#7. As Zapffe concluded, we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see,

Thomas Ligotti

#8. A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

Alan Sugar

#9. The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Jethro Tull

#10. Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

Henry Sidgwick

#12. One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow - a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Henry Sidgwick

#13. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Gore Vidal

#14. We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

William John Wills

#15. When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

Samuel Johnson

#16. These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#17. We think so because all other people think so;
Or because-or because-after all, we do think so;
Or because we were told so, and think we must think so;
Or because we once thought so, and think we still think so;
Or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

Henry Sidgwick

#18. You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Joyce Meyer

#19. My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Yann Martel

#20. From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay."
"Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

Lisa Kleypas