“The last people in the world in whom the personality would consent to be absorbed into pantheism is the French.”
Introduction à l'histoire universelle, new ed. (Paris: Hachette, 1879), p. 136
Introduction to Universal History, 1831
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Jules Michelet 6
French historian 1798–1874Related quotes
“Taxes are not to be laid on the people but by their consent in person or by deputation.”
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
“The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.”
As quoted in Garfield of Ohio : The Available Man (1970) by John M. Tyler
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell’s Filmgoers’ Companion ( 1984 http://books.google.com/books?id=SAAqAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Paul+Newman+Acting+is+a+question+of+absorbing+other+people's+personalities+and+adding+some+of+your+own+experience%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage)
From the first draft of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances passed October 19, 1765 by The First Congress of the American Colonies, also known as the Stamp Act Congress; as cited in John Dickinson and the Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1764-1776, David Louis Jacobson, University of California Press (1965), p. 32
Source: Utilitarianism (1861), Ch. 2
My Inventions (1919)
Source: My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Context: From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement. The pressure of occupation and the incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through all the gateways of knowledge make modern existence hazardous in many ways. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.
“Speaking generally, he holds dominion, to whom are entrusted by common consent affairs of state”
such as the laying down, interpretation, and abrogation of laws, the fortification of cities, deciding on war and peace, &c. But if this charge belong to a council, composed of the general multitude, then the dominion is called a democracy; if the council be composed of certain chosen persons, then it is an aristocracy ; and, if, lastly, the care of affairs of state, and, consequently, the dominion rest with one man, then it has the name of monarchy.
Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 2, Of Natural Right
Source: Leftism Revisited (1990), p. 319