372 quotes found
“Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.”
“Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.”
“The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being u...”
“Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary comp...”
“Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we reme...”
“Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and plea...”
“Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?”
“There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions and how people saw you. They had a point. There's a lot to learn from that generation -- the stoic ...”
“Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.”
“But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the di...”
“Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.”
“He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.”
“If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.”
“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the h...”
“Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.”
“With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.”
“What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.”
“He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the infe...”
“Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.”
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, th...”
