“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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Charles Darwin161
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Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Many of us spend our lives marching with open eyes toward remorse, regret, guilt, and disappointment. And nowhere do our injuries seem more casually self-inflicted, or the suffering we create more disproportionate to the needs of the moment, than in the lies we tell to other human beings. Lying is the royal road to chaos.
2010s, Lying (2011)
Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author
Page 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3. <br class="br">Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)
W. H. Auden book Forewords and Afterwords
"C.P. Cavafy", p. 341
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Context: In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.
The virtue of patriotism has been extolled most loudly and publicly by nations that are in the process of conquering others, by the Roman, for example, in the first century B. C., the French in the 1790s, the English in the nineteenth century, and the Germans in the first half of the twentieth. To such people, love of one's country involves denying the right of others, of the Gauls, the Italians, the Indians, the Poles, to love theirs.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 119
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Context: The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real, peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world. This is the single whole which filleth the whole, illumineth the universe and directeth nature to the production of natural things, as our intellect with the congruous production of natural kinds.
“…the violin — that most human of all instruments…”
Louisa May Alcott book Jo's Boys
Source: Jo's Boys
Charles A. Reich book The Greening of America
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IX : The New Generation, p. 253