The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God. ' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.
The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats. . . which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. . . . First, there are those judgments whose verification has simply dropped out of memory. . . . The second type of unreasoned judgments we hold is the opinions we adopt from others. . . The third class of judgments in Professor Hibben's list comprises those which have subconscious origin. The material that furnishes their support does not reach the focal point of consciousness, but psychology insists upon its existence.
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
