Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Improvement Era (February 1962) p. 86
Realism and the Contemporary Novel (1961): The Long Revolution
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
Variant: But I warn you, I am only really myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
Source: Save Me the Waltz
“I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life.”
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Context: My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits — the relevant fruits — are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IX : The New Generation, p. 253
As quoted in "The Status of Annexed Territory and of its Free Civilized Inhabitants" (1901), North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
