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Followers do not like themselves, of course; that’s why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them  (Upon Quotes) The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth  (Upon Quotes) The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population  (Upon Quotes) And this is the origin of pop music: it’s a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well  (Upon Quotes) Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track  (Upon Quotes) Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders  (Upon Quotes) Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young  (Upon Quotes) Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair  (Upon Quotes) Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them  (Upon Quotes) Words can carry any burden we wish. All that’s required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build  (Upon Quotes) Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices  (Upon Quotes) If you are driven by certainty you can’t grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person’s personality  (Upon Quotes) Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation  (Upon Quotes) To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down  (Upon Quotes) My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn’t impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place  (Upon Quotes) Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves  (Upon Quotes) This other war, the war upon destruction of natural assets is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast war is largely ignorance, that most of our citizens do not realize what is going on under their very feet  (Upon Quotes) It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it  (Upon Quotes) History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume  (Upon Quotes) The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness  (Upon Quotes) Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe  (Upon Quotes) Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept  (Upon Quotes) If every child might live the life predestined in a mother’s heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory  (Upon Quotes) It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained  (Upon Quotes) He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train  (Upon Quotes) A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs  (Upon Quotes) If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves  (Upon Quotes) Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest  (Upon Quotes) Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right  (Upon Quotes) Desire’s wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time  (Upon Quotes)
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