Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 10, “An Abode of Ravens: Recovery” (p. 397)
“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”
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William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) English mathematician and philosopher
The Ethics of Belief (1877), The Limits Of Inference
Context: p>We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know. We may believe the statement of another person, when there is reasonable ground for supposing that he knows the matter of which he speaks, and that he is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence; and where it is presumption to doubt and to investigate, there it is worse than presumption to believe.</p
“Love demands all, and has a right to all.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 15-16).
“Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all”
Whitney Houston (1963–2012) American singer, actress, model, and record producer
Source: Whitney the Greatest Hits
“Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.”
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne
The British Enchanters (1705), Act III, scene iii.
“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs.
Maxim 2.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.2 The Social Aims of Jesus, p. 53
