Sublime

‘That means mischief, eh?’ said Mr Hawley. ‘He’s got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise.

But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-givin

Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: "A man's life is what his thoughts make of it."

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.

The Duke means Dux, Leader; King is Kön-ning, Kan-ning, Man that knows or cans. Society everywhere is some representation, not insupportably inaccurate, of a graduated Worship of Heroes;—reverence and obedience done to men really great and wise. Not insupportably inaccurate, I say!

Hegel fut probablement celui qui en fait le mieux la théorie : le grand homme est celui que l’histoire fait pour qu’il la fasse… Ruse de la raison, il est un produit de l’histoire qui s’arrange pour créer la main qui créera… la main de l’histoire. Le grand homme fait l’histoire qui fait le grand homme.

Remember rather that the man who writes for fools always finds a large public: and only read for a limited and definite time exclusively the works of great minds, those who surpass other men of all times and countries, and whom the voice of fame points to as such. These alone really educate and instruct.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.