Quintin Hogg, The Case for Conservatism (Penguin, 1947), p. 10.
“The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves.”
Variant: It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: 'The Morality of Field Sports', The Fortnightly Review (October 1869), quoted in E. A. Freeman, The Morality of Field Sports (1874), p. 18
Source: The Pillars of the Earth
“The most important thing you do in your life is to die.”
“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.”
In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987).
"Tangled in the Party Line" in China File https://www.chinafile.com/tangled-party-line (6 September 2012)
R.U.R. supplement in The Saturday Review (1923)
Context: Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.
