
On slavery, in a letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820)
1820s
On the Conservative Party; Skidelsky (1992:231) quoting Collected Writings Volume IX page 296-297
On slavery, in a letter to John Holmes (22 April 1820)
1820s
The Cost of Frivolity http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-02-01td.html (February 1, 2007).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
1963, Remarks Intended for Delivery to the Texas Democratic State Committee in the Municipal Auditorium in Austin
As quoted in "TV and Classroom Physicist : 'Professor Wonderful,' Julius Sumner Miller, Dies" by Gerald Faris, in The Los Angeles Times (16 April 1987)
Theism and humanism
Context: Romantic love goes far beyond race requirements. From this point of view it is as useless as aesthetic emotion itself. And, like aesthetic emotion of the profounder sort, it is rarely satisfied with the definite, the limited, and the immediate. It ever reaches out towards an unrealised infinity. It cannot rest content with the prose of mere fact. It sees visions and dreams dreams which to an unsympathetic world seem no better than amiable follies. Is it from sources like these—the illusions of love and the enthusiasms of ignorance—that we propose to supplement the world-outlook provided for us by sober sense and scientific observation?
Yet why not? Here we have values which by supposition we are reluctant to lose. Neither scientific observation nor sober sense can preserve them. It is surely permissible to ask what will.
“We should neither bemoan nor naively idealize this new reality. We should deal with it.”
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Context: We are now in a new era. To label this time "the post-Cold War era" belies its uniqueness and its significance. We are now in a Global Age. Like it or not, we live in an age when our destinies and the destinies of billions of people around the globe are increasingly intertwined. When our grand domestic and international challenges are also intertwined. We should neither bemoan nor naively idealize this new reality. We should deal with it.
“Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.”
Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (April 9, 1889)
Letters