“The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.”
No. 333
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
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English writer 1778–1830Related quotes
“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.”
As quoted in Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884), p. 639
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned”
Source: The Immoralist
Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics
Chap. VIII: The Masses Intervene In Everything, And Why Their Intervention Is Solely By Violence
The Revolt of the Masses (1929)
“He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.”
Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
I, 14.
Pamela (c. 1750)
Playfully ironic letter to Adam Smith regarding the positive reception of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"
Context: A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..”
“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
"Reading", p. 6
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)