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“Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.”

Needs Fall Class Greatness Excellence Carrie Conventions Elegance Urgent Refinement Yale Exclusivity

Author:Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.”

Needs Kind Soul Certain Evil Difficult Class Greatness Particular Unique Infinite Variety

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!”

Force Class Mankind Greatness Skulls Homage Feats Affirmative

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.”

Thinking Reason Kids Class Rich Wise Greatness Horse Ass Presidency Humane Traitor Franklin Resourceful Rich Kids

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.”

People Men Different Success Next Nature Class Fields Greatness Great Men Remove Horizon Successors

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures

“The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.”

Men Class Greatness Raises Misery Philosopher Disputes

Author:Blaise Pascal