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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Solitude is the climax of the negative virtues. When we go to bed after a solitary day we can tell ourselves that we have not been unkind nor dishonest nor untruthful; and the negative virtues are agreeable to that dangerous faculty we call the conscience. That they should ever be admitted for a part of virtue is what I cannot explain. I do not care two straws for all the nots.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 4.6 “Solitude and Society”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #accountability #conscience #feedback #foolingyourself #negativevirtue #selfapproval #selfassurance #selfdeception #selfevaluation #selfopinion #selfrationalization #selfreproach #selfrighteousness #selfsufficiency #sinofomission #solitude #virtue
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Solitude is the climax of the negative virtues. When we go to bed after a solitary day we can tell ourselves that we have not been unkind nor dishonest nor untruthful; and the negative virtues are agreeable to that dangerous faculty we call the conscience. That they should ever be admitted for a part of virtue is what I cannot explain. I do not care two straws for all the nots.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 4.6 “Solitude and Society”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #accountability #conscience #feedback #foolingyourself #negativevirtue #selfapproval #selfassurance #selfdeception #selfevaluation #selfopinion #selfrationalization #selfreproach #selfrighteousness #selfsufficiency #sinofomission #solitude #virtue
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Solitude is the climax of the negative virtues. When we go to bed after a solitary day we can tell ourselves that we have not been unkind nor dishonest nor untruthful; and the negative virtues are agreeable to that dangerous faculty we call the conscience. That they should ever be admitted for a part of virtue is what I cannot explain. I do not care two straws for all the nots.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 4.6 “Solitude and Society”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #accountability #conscience #feedback #foolingyourself #negativevirtue #selfapproval #selfassurance #selfdeception #selfevaluation #selfopinion #selfrationalization #selfreproach #selfrighteousness #selfsufficiency #sinofomission #solitude #virtue
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Solitude is the climax of the negative virtues. When we go to bed after a solitary day we can tell ourselves that we have not been unkind nor dishonest nor untruthful; and the negative virtues are agreeable to that dangerous faculty we call the conscience. That they should ever be admitted for a part of virtue is what I cannot explain. I do not care two straws for all the nots.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 4.6 “Solitude and Society”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #accountability #conscience #feedback #foolingyourself #negativevirtue #selfapproval #selfassurance #selfdeception #selfevaluation #selfopinion #selfrationalization #selfreproach #selfrighteousness #selfsufficiency #sinofomission #solitude #virtue
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This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.
Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)More about this quote: wist.info/wills-garry/4211/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #garrywills #foolingyourself #agitprop #belief #credibility #credulity #disinformation #lies #propaganda #selfdeception #spin #truth
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This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.
Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)More about this quote: wist.info/wills-garry/4211/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #garrywills #foolingyourself #agitprop #belief #credibility #credulity #disinformation #lies #propaganda #selfdeception #spin #truth
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This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.
Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)More about this quote: wist.info/wills-garry/4211/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #garrywills #foolingyourself #agitprop #belief #credibility #credulity #disinformation #lies #propaganda #selfdeception #spin #truth
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This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.
Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)More about this quote: wist.info/wills-garry/4211/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #garrywills #foolingyourself #agitprop #belief #credibility #credulity #disinformation #lies #propaganda #selfdeception #spin #truth
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ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself
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ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself
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ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #tartuffe #amorousness #conceit #ego #folly #gullibility #love #lust #pride #selfbetrayal #selfdeceit #selfdeception #selflove #foolingyourself