History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
AGNES REPPLIERto be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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Economics and ethics have little in common.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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The audience is the controlling factor in the actor’s life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.
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