Logan Pearsall Smith: Quotes about people

Logan Pearsall Smith was British American-born writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?”

Logan Pearsall Smith

Age and Death
Afterthoughts (1931)

People , Music

“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.”

Logan Pearsall Smith

Age and Death
Afterthoughts (1931)

People , Parting

“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”

Logan Pearsall Smith

Other People.
Afterthoughts (1931)

People , Soul

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

Logan Pearsall Smith

In the World.
Afterthoughts (1931)

People

“Perhaps not only in his attitude towards truth, but in his attitude towards himself, Montaigne was a precursor. Perhaps here again he was ahead of his own time, ahead of our time also, since none of us would have the courage to imitate him. It may be that some future century will vindicate this unseemly performance; in the meanwhile it will be of interest to examine the reasons which he gives us for it. He says, in the first place, that he found this study of himself, this registering of his moods and imaginations, extremely amusing; it was an exploration of an unknown region, full of the queerest chimeras and monsters, a new art of discovery, in which he had become by practice “the cunningest man alive.” It was profitable also, for most people enjoy their pleasures without knowing it; they glide over them, and fix and feed their minds on the miseries of life. But to observe and record one’s pleasant experiences and imaginations, to associate one’s mind with them, not to let them dully and unfeelingly escape us, was to make them not only more delightful but more lasting. As life grows shorter we should endeavour, he says, to make it deeper and more full. But he found moral profit also in this self-study; for how, he asked, can we correct our vices if we do not know them, how cure the diseases of our soul if we never observe their symptoms? The man who has not learned to know himself is not the master, but the slave of life: he is the “explorer without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and when all is done, the fool of the play.””

Logan Pearsall Smith

“Montaigne,” p. 6
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)

Life , People , Pleasure , Truth