“I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.” MenDoeIdeasGodFatherReligiousPerfectClearImagineImpossibleWorshipPraiseInfiniteRegardVanity Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader
“I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.” DoeHardSchoolTalentPraiseRegardBlameNormExceptionalIndulgenceObeyingGood SchoolProper Time Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“On the other hand, if someone praised [Donald] Trump, he would respond with praise. This could result in creating a spiral in either a positive or negative direction. A negative spiral could potentially get out of hand, which would be alarming with regard to anyone with a hand hovering near the nuclear button.” IfsHandsWould BeResultsTrumpCreatingNegativePraiseRegardNuclearButtonsSpiralsHovering Author:David Krieger
“That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.” ReasonTruthAgeAbleLastsWillingPaidPraiseRegardAddDisappointmentRefuseDuesEnvyParadoxHonourDeniedComplaintsPosterityHeresyAntiquityEminence Author:Ben Jonson