“Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.” WorldMayBookAgeAbleTaughtWeightSuitsCarrieBigotryTemperPedantry Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power, is the height of goodness, and makes that temper which we call divine.” WorldWholeLyingInterestStudyDivineGoodnessUniversalWhole WorldHeightTemper Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.” WorldMindValuesTurnsHonestySakeAffectionGenerousCharmNativeGrainEstatesOrnamentsSymmetryKnaves Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.” WorldRealitySeemsTruthAbleMovingPassionPowerfulFictionPleaseTruth IsMovedAppearanceMost PowerfulResemblance Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.” WorldForceVirtueThis WorldDifficultySuperiorsEncounters Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.” WorldTruthFacesNaturalMoralHonestyHarmonyArchitectureFeaturesProportion Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.” WorldSelfHardestThinkerHardest Thing Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.” WorldNaturalBeautyMoralHonestyTruth Is Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.” ThinkingMenWorldWayCharacterBodyGivenJourneyObjectsPrejudiceAffairGloriousMist Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
