volume II, chapter XXI: "General Summary and Conclusion", page 385 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=402&itemID=F937.2&viewtype=image
The Descent of Man (1871)
“What the world stigmatizes as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.”
—
Anne Brontë
,
book
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Milicent
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "What the world stigmatizes as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the…" by Anne Brontë?
Anne Brontë 148
British novelist and poet 1820–1849Related quotes
Harry Truman
(1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Speech to a joint session of the US Congress (12 March 1947), outlining what became known as The Truman Doctrine
Context: At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression.
The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio; fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”
Livy
(-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book XXXIX, sec. 16
History of Rome
The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. <!-- p. 195
“Men sholde wedden after hir estat,
For youthe and elde is often at debat.”
The Miller's Tale, l. 121-122
The Canterbury Tales
Brock Chisholm
(1896–1971) Doctor and soldier
Quoted in: Minteer, Catherine. "What We Observed in Teaching General Semantics." Et cetera 61 (2004): 482–86.
Context: Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.
Herbert Spencer
(1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Pt. I, The Unknowable; Ch. I, Religion and Science; quoting from "There is some soul of goodness in things evil / Would men observingly distil it out", William Shakespeare, Henry V, act iv. sc. i
First Principles (1862)
Greg Bear
(1951) American writer best known for science fiction
Source: Blood Music (1985), Chapter 39 (p. 210)