Source: 1 x 1 (1944), X
“Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!”
“Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.”
Source: Frostbite
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 2
“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.
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“There is no level of moral achievement upon which man can have or actually has an easy conscience.”
vol. 1, p. 131
The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941)
At the celebration of the sesquicentennial of Princeton College (October 22, 1896).
“No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p62.
Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 1.
Context: All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
1990s and beyond, "The Agenbite of Outwit" (1998)
