The Great Infidels (1881)
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal
“Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.”
Address at Mount Holyoke College (2006)
“Now, very few [physicians] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.”
"You Should Face Up to Your Death, Says Author".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
Give Me Liberty (1936)
Context: The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
Source: All That Matters (1922), p.50 - Clinching the Bolt, stanza 3.
“Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Women & men
Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Journal Articles
Book VII, Ch. 1
Progress and Poverty (1879)
Five Elements Five Dakinis http://www.unfetteredmind.org/five-elements-five-dakinis-9#FEFD090:33:46.8. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org.. (2007-07-09) (Topic: Practice)
