Distinguished Quotes - Page 8

• The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, People, Opinion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll ...”

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• Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

  Carl R Trueman

  Taken, Use, Sophisticated

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

  John Stuart Mill

  Integrity, Honor, Atheism

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.173, Hackett Publishing

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• Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well for people so that when they put in a hard day's work, they can support themselves and their family members. Those are the fundamentals that have distinguished America from other nations in the world.

  Joaquin Castro

  Strong, School, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

  George Jean Nathan

  Air, Flying, Flags

  George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken (1929). “The American Mercury”

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• Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
  [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

  Tacitus

  Portraits, Cassius, Brutus

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• I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Two, Answers

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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• I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Class, Community, Quality

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.157, London : H. Colburn

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• A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a remarkably wide range of examples and is distinguished by the relevance of its insights and by the precision and clarity of their exposition. It is an absorbing read that deserves to become a modern classic of political thinking.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Strong, Thinking, Leader

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• [Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

  Kingsley Amis

  Technology, Winning, Class

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• ... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Utah, Cities, Two

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• Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

  Dario Argento

  Italian, Film History, Special

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• It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

  Conrad Black

  Hypocrite, Sitting, Biden

  "The World According to Conrad Black". www.thestar.com. March 11, 2007.

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• Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

  Martin Heidegger

  Doe, Facts, Existentialism

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh, Dennis J. Schmidt (2010). “Being and Time”, p.11, SUNY Press

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• No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.

  Northrop Frye

  Magic, Literature, Kind

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.447, University of Toronto Press

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• Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Perseverance, Passion, Animal

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lying, Humanity, Individuality

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• People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

  Voltaire

  Pain, Philosophical, Character

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• Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even though the Union of Concerned Scientists put out this statement which was signed by more than half of all the Nobel laureates in science and another 1,500 distinguished scientists.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Community, Attention, Half

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Mean, Thinking

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• Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.

  Michael Tsarion

  Senior, Order, Knights

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• Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Worship, Compulsion, Saved

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

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• Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, merely to carry the movement one stage further. Moral fervor is the essence of the matter.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Essence, Movement

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Hero, Names, Achievement

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