Peculiar Quotes - Page 34

• We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, May, Legends

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.348, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

  John Ruskin

  Race, Forever, Used

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.79

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• A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Style, Taste

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.22

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• It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Quality, Fool, Faults

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Cicero,

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• This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.444

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• Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

  Joseph Story

  Family, Children, Law

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• To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

  James Hollis

  Being Yourself, Mean, Differences

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• Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Dmt

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• If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.

  Wim Wenders

  Thinking, Order, Roaming

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• Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Writing, Winning

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