“The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.”
Speech on Reform of Representation in the House of Commons (7 May 1782)
1780s
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“You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.”
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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976), p. 38
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“Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
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Bacon, like Grosseteste, asserts that both the active extramitted species of vision from the eye, and the intramitted species of light from object seen, were necessary for sight.
v. i. vii. 4, ed. Briggs as quoted in A.C. Crombie, Robert Grossetest and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)
Opus Majus, c. 1267

The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism