“Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.” MenWantDoneWholeCharacterLyingDifferencesNumbersMoralIntellectualWhole LifeChiefsFantasticExcessAestheticQuestsUnnecessarySubjectiveBrutesSuperfluousPropensity Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays
“The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.” PeopleSelfGovernmentActionDifferencesInternalsStableUnnecessaryRestraintUnstable Author:Carroll Quigley
“The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.” MindSaidDifferencesDealsEffectsJudgingOppositesMethodObviousTongueComparisonWowContrastConcreteBowsInferiorsUnnecessaryJohnsonRobustTemptingBow Wow Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)