Quote

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Almost
Temperamental
History
Unconventional
Rebellion
Sense
Lack
Every
Mere
People
Case
Cases
Dead
Eccentrics

More quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Image
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to beon the side of the stars at all, unless he makes refusals.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements and about once in so often we go back and begin again.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould