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“I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.”

Ifs Knows Looks Doe Whole Literature Stuff My Own Proud Highest Regard Flaws Right Words

Author:Neil Gaiman

“In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect.”

“What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often redecidedso we must not think badly if we regard literature as entertainment rather than as transcendent enlightenment.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Art Literature Enlightenment Art Is Decided Regard Entertainment Decades Transcendent

Author:Richard Condon

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”

“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.”

“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”

Humans Literature Race Members Regard Finance Human Race Brokers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'”

Thinking Philosophy Literature Roles Teaching Regard Possession Educational Educator Tranquil Certitude

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.”

Persons Literature Memories Appreciate Regard Merit Posterity

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.”

Feels War Literature Regard Convinced Ministers Venture Cabinets

Author:Fredrik Bajer

“It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.”

Ifs Humans Ends Culture Literature Church Impossible Subjects Regard Limitation Organisms

Book:Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)

Source: Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)

“Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture”

Body Culture Literature Strong Sides Behinds Christianity Opinion Issues Modern Destruction Treats Regard Tendencies Vague Hostile Modern Life Modern Culture

Book:Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)

Source: Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)