“Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.” PeopleIfsMeanIdeasHelpingCoursesProcessRaceLibertyProgressDangerousIncreasePhilosopherAvailableAcceptedSavedImprovementHopelessNew IdeasRejected Author:T. H. White
“The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.” EndsAgeRaceDemocratCommunistCapitalist Book:The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
“Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.” PeopleMenShouldBelieveEarthAnimalDealsRaceHumbleGreat MenPrimitiveBelieve In MeWormsDaft Book:The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King Source: The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
“We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.” KnowsMenHumansPhilosophyRaceBehindsWiseFoolPoliticianHundredMathematicsNineOptimisticHuman RaceFancyDividedVillainWarfareStanding OutObserversNinetyMaliceLabyrinthBannerKnavesChicanery Author:T. H. White
