“Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.” LittlesPersonsFeelingsAttentionKnowingGreaterObjectsCreaturesFellowsDenyInventionSuperiorsEsteemPreferenceCeremonyEndeavourUneasyUneasy Feelings Author:Charles Lamb
“Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively representation of ideas assembled together, gives every sensible object those heightening touches, and that striking imagery, which is unknown to men of slower apprehensions: wit being to sensible objects, what light is to bodies; it does not merely show them as they are in themselves: it gives an adventitious colour, which is not a property inherent in them: it lends them beauties which are not their own.” MenGivingDoeIdeasShowsBodyLightTogetherTurnsObjectsPropertyWitSuperiorsColourSensibleInherentRepresentationImageryLivelyApprehensionWrong TurnVivacity Author:Jeremiah Seed
“I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.” GivingMindMayRealitySeemsAblePassionBeliefCausesTermImaginationFictionTakenAtheismInfluenceObjectsPositive AtheismSuperiorsVarietyFirmConceptionSteadyVividLively Book:Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition
“Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?” AbilityWonderObjectsHatredSuperiorsAdmirationDisplayAthleticClassmatesAthletic Ability Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.” MenThreeObjectsDegreesSuperiorsSuitsPrincipalBehaviourBreedingGood Breeding Author:Jonathan Swift
“The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.” WholeMightPoliticalPlansObjectsColdProveElementsGreedPopulationSuperiorsMotiveGenocideAnnihilationTroublesomeExterminationCold BloodedArmenian Genocide Author:Fridtjof Nansen
“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.” PeopleMenReasonGovernmentCultureFoundFatherCommonMoralPrinciplesPathProgressConditionsMankindStageSecurityObjectsDivineHigherMoralityCivilizationAuthorityIntellectualCapacityIndependenceSuperiorsRedemptionVainTitlesExpansionCouncilOur FatherBenevolentIndependence DayElevationAscentOrdinancesTracingAscendingDivine Wisdom Author:William M. Evarts