“The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.”
Chicago Tribune (23 May 1926)
1920s
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Source: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. VI: International relations, p. 97
“Man is weak and when he makes strength his profession he is even weaker.”
El hombre es débil y cuando ejerce la profesíon de fuerte es más débil.
Voces (1943)
“Indeed, when a ruler once becomes unpopular, all his acts, be they good or bad, tell against him.”
Book I, 7
Histories (100-110)
Source: Love Among the Chickens
Source: What is Philosophy? (1964), pp. 16-17
“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.”
Part 1, Chapter 11 (page 35)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Context: Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.