John Grier Hibben Quotes

• Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

  John Grier Hibben

  Education, Educational, Ability

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• Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

  John Grier Hibben

  Responsibility, Loss, Men

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• There may be a soul of the world, there may be ... a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to every atom in the universe, and the psychical side, like the moon, may show us ever but the one face, the other forever in the shadow; but, at best, this is only a conjecture, it presents no solid foundation upon which to rest a theory.

  John Grier Hibben

  Moon, Forever, Soul

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• I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

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  Country, Men, Thinking

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• What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

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  Ignorance, Reality, May

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• A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.

  John Grier Hibben

  Philosophy, Fall, Use

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