“Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.” MindHeartHomeSidesPerspectivePrejudiceClimateNotionIncomeLocalsLimitationZoneHorizonCosmicEducateConventionalGlobesProspectsConjectureLatitude Book:Table-talk Source: Table-talk
“By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.” WorldSelfImaginationIdentityCitizensPrejudiceLocalsDivisionInvitedFrontiersHorseback Author:Alain de Botton
“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.” HumansReasonPhilosophyHelpingPoliticalNaturalStudyDangerSucceedDemandMajorsPrejudiceMethodLocalsBiasPolitical Philosophy Author:Raymond Geuss
“Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.” ReasonWholePurposeNationsInterestOughtPrejudiceGuidesLocalsParliamentDeliberateAssemblyMembers Of Parliament Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Travel should rub off Local Prejudices and provide an enlarged and impartial view of Men and Things.” MenShouldViewsPrejudiceLocals Author:Josiah Tucker
“The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality...” CharacterEyeReligionSidesInterestCommunityViewsPartyPrinciplesWatchesTalentPolicyOughtMoralityPureEqualConstitutionPrejudiceFoundationDuesLocalsAttachmentHonorableComprehensivePledgeTributeSelectedQualificationsAnimosityRectitudeAssemblage Author:George Washington
“I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.” PeopleNeedsSeemsBreakWorstPrejudiceDisappearLocals Author:Gary Lineker
“When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.” MenWisdomPassionInterestViewsNumbersOpinionAdvantagePrejudiceErrorsSelfishLocalsJoints Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.” DifferentReasonWholePurposePoliticsNationsInterestOughtMembersPrejudiceCongressGuidesLocalsChosenAgentsYou ChooseHostileParliamentAssemblyAmbassadorsMembers Of ParliamentBristol Book:The Portable Edmund Burke Source: The Portable Edmund Burke