“It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day,—this is the work of genius.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 33
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Source: On Liberty (1859), Ch. 1: Introductory
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Variant: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Section 7
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements
Context: There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
"St. Paul and Protestantism" (1870)
“The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”
Act 6, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)
Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, 604 (1940).